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Events 660s – Cædmon Anglo-Saxon poet

Cædmon Anglo-Saxon poet  Events  In Gaul all Roman bishops are replaced with Frankish bishops. They become increasingly common, as Frankish leaders control the episcopate. Plague of 664 According to Bede, a Northumbrian monk and historian, the plague begins shortly after the eclipse of 1 May. Adomnan of Iona, a contemporary Irish abbot and saint, writes that the epidemic affects all of Ireland and Great Britain, except for Dál Riata and Pictland. The epidemic significantly depopulates southern coastal areas of England. The first glass windows are placed in English churches Cædmon, Anglo-Saxon poet, writes a nine-line hymn on the Creation. A onetime illiterate herdsman, he becomes a monk under the rule of Hilda of Whitby, where he will turn various biblical themes into vernacular poetry

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