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Quotation from Cædmon's Hymn by Cædmon
“He first raised up for the race of men The heaven as a roof, the holy Ruler.”
Cædmon's Hymn, Lines 5-6, trans. Cosette Faust and Stith Thompson (1918)
The first act of creation in the hymn is the sky, pictured as a roof over the children of men.
Citation: "He first raised up for the race of men The heaven as a roof, the holy Ruler." — Cædmon, Cædmon's Hymn, Lines 5-6, trans. Cosette Faust and Stith Thompson (1918). (id caedmons-hymn-q2)
