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... men and women ) built at Whitby , and presided over by the Abbess Hilda , a woman who combined high culture and learning with a noble devotion to the good of souls . Cĉdmon's Poems , 670 . Cadmon , a herdsman working 4 PERIOD I.
... men and women ) built at Whitby , and presided over by the Abbess Hilda , a woman who combined high culture and learning with a noble devotion to the good of souls . Cĉdmon's Poems , 670 . Cadmon , a herdsman working 4 PERIOD I.
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... Cĉdmon , unable to join in these praises , and knowing no lay in which he could celebrate the glory of the true God , left the banquet and went out to the stables . There , his thoughts full of the late incident , he fell asleep , and ...
... Cĉdmon , unable to join in these praises , and knowing no lay in which he could celebrate the glory of the true God , left the banquet and went out to the stables . There , his thoughts full of the late incident , he fell asleep , and ...
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... dialect spoken by Bede , Cĉdmon , and Alcuin , reappears again in literature , after a silence of several centuries , in the fifteenth century , in the 1 patriotic war poems of Barbour , Archdeacon of Aberdeen 28 28 PERIOD II.
... dialect spoken by Bede , Cĉdmon , and Alcuin , reappears again in literature , after a silence of several centuries , in the fifteenth century , in the 1 patriotic war poems of Barbour , Archdeacon of Aberdeen 28 28 PERIOD II.
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