Oldest surviving English poem in history discovered in manuscript in Roman library
- Posted on May 17, 2026
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Oldest surviving English poem in history discovered in manuscript in Roman library
ROME — The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marveling at a medieval book tracked down in a Roman library. They flipped through its digitized pages and found their sought-after treasure: the oldest surviving English poem. “We were extremely surprised. We were speechless. We couldn’t believe our eyes when we first saw that,” Elisabetta Magnanti, a visiting research fellow at Trinity College Dublin’s school of English, told...
