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Front 1

story of caedmon

Back 1

caedmon was an alliterate hersman employed by the monastary. A man appeard to him in a dream demanding for him to "sing him a song." upon caedmon stating that he didnt know how to sing, the man told him to sing about creation. Bede recorded this song

Front 2

Ceadmons hymn structure

Back 2

germanic verse, two stressed and two or more unstressed, linked by alliteration, interweaving, various epithaphs

Front 3

Now [we] must honour the guardian of heaven,
the might of the architect, and his purpose,
the work of the father of glory[b]
as he, the eternal lord, established the beginning of wonders;
he first created for the children of men[c]
heaven as a roof, the holy creator
Then the guardian of mankind,
the eternal lord, afterwards appointed the middle earth,
the lands for men,[d] the Lord almighty.

Back 3

Caedmon's hymn

Front 4

beaw
scyld scefing
herot
wiglaf

Back 4

beowolf

Front 5

beowolf organized by

Back 5

alliteration, strssed symbols only