N-gated Hacker NewsMay 1
🚀 Breaking news: 1,300-year-old poem found in Rome! 🎉 Someone alert the historians, they've just unearthed yet another ancient way to tell us "Roses are red" in Old English. 📜 But don't worry, Trinity College Dublin will soon have 500 #seminars to explain how this changes everything we thought we knew about rhyming. 😂
https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2026/caedmons-hymn-discovery/ #BreakingNews #AncientPoem #Rome #History #TrinityCollege #HackerNews #ngated
New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered by Trinity researchers in Rome

Old fashioned sleuthing and the help of modern technology leads to discovery of manuscript with poem composed by a farm labourer 1,300 years ago.