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Uncommon card · Science
Cædmon's Hymn, an Uncommon card
Cædmon's Hymn is a short Old English poem attributed to Cædmon, a supposedly illiterate and unmusical cow-herder who was, according to the Northumbrian monk Bede, miraculously empowered to sing in honour of God the Creator.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 133
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 60,000
Power 133 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The poem is Cædmon's only surviving composition.
- The poem has a claim to being the oldest surviving English poem: if Bede's account is correct, the poem was composed between 658 and 680, in the early stages of the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England.
- Even on the basis of the surviving manuscripts, the poem is the earliest securely dateable example of Old English verse.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cædmon's Hymn article was read about 60,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Cædmon's Hymn
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cædmon's Hymn (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
