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We found a lost copy of the earliest surviving English poem in a medieval manuscript in Rome

Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner with a copy of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Courtesy of…

byElisabetta Magnanti

May 10, 2026