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Caedmon's Hymn: Northumbrian Version
Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)
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Verse Early Anglian Nu scylun hergan hefaenricaes uard, metudæs maecti end his modgidanc, uerc uuldurfadur, sue he uundra gihuaes, eci dryctin, or astelidæ. He aerist scop aelda barnum heben til hrofe, haleg scepen; tha middungeard moncynnæs uard, eci dryctin, æfter tiadæ firum foldu, frea allmectig.