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Quotation from Cædmon's Hymn by Cædmon

“Sing to me of the beginning of things.”

Cædmon (spoken by The dream visitor)

Cædmon's Hymn, Bede's account, paragraph 2, trans. Cosette Faust and Stith Thompson (1918)

When Cædmon asks what he should sing, the visitor gives him creation as his theme.

Citation: "Sing to me of the beginning of things." — Cædmon, Cædmon's Hymn, Bede's account, paragraph 2, trans. Cosette Faust and Stith Thompson (1918). (id caedmons-hymn-q5)

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