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Cæd⋅mon

[kad-muhn]
–noun
fl. a.d. c670, Anglo-Saxon religious poet.
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Caed·mon   (kād'mən)   
The earliest English poet. According to Bede, he was an elderly herdsman who received the power of song in a vision.
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