Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie de Gruyter Inter alia Bede teils us that Caedmon had spent the greater part of his life äs a layman, and that his Konversion' took place when he was already advanced in life. Bede's account of the poet Caedmon is too well known to need recapitulation. The view put forward in the following article cannot be regarded äs offering more than a plausible hypothesis, but should it lead to further discussion and be shown to be untenable, it will have served a useful purpose. Gollancz for the British Academy has reminded us that many problems still await solution and that suggestions may still be welcome. But in spite of all the good work that has already been done, the very suggestive lecture recently delivered by Sir I. To attempt to Supplement our knowledge of the origin of the so-called Caedmon Poems, and to make any useful addition to the work of scholars like Sievers, ten Brink, Hoenncher, Bright, Sarrazin, and many others, German, English and American, may well seem a daring, if not altogether hopeless task.
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