EP12 - The 1,200-Year-Old Poem Hidden in a Book — and the Shy Farmer Who Wrote It

What if a quiet, shy farmer woke up one morning and magically knew how to write the very first poem in the English language? This episode tells the remarkable true story of Cædmon, a humble animal keeper from ancient England, and the incredible discovery just made by researchers in a library in Rome — a handwritten book over 1,200 years old containing the oldest English poem ever found. 📜 Learn what a manuscript is and why old books are so precious. 🌳 Discover how one nine-line poem is the ancestor of every English story ever told. 🔍 Find out how scholars uncovered this hidden treasure after centuries. 💬 Ask your child: if you could send a poem to someone 1,000 years from now, what would you say?