New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1.3k years ago, discovered in Rome | Hacker News

Archaeologists discovered a manuscript copy of Caedmon’s Hymn in Rome, dated to about 1,300 years ago.

The find is being highlighted as an important early English literary discovery.

Caedmon’s Hymn is widely regarded as the earliest known poem in English.

The new manuscript gives scholars another witness to study Old English language, literacy, and religious culture.