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Origin of the name CAEDMON.
Etymology of
the name CAEDMON.
Meaning of the baby name CAEDMON.
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CAEDMON. Anglo-Saxon
form of the Latinized Old Celtic name Catumanus
(q.v.), meaning
"horn of battle; a warrior." This was the name of a poet-monk
whose story is told in History of the English Church, by Beda. (Exodus and Daniel: two Old English Poems,
Blackburn, 1907).
The name
Cædmon (in the MSS. of the Old English version of Bæda written
Cedmon, Ceadmann) is not explicable by means of Old English; the statement
that it means "boatman" is founded on the corrupt gloss liburnam,
ced, where ced is an editorial misreading for ceol.
It is most probably the British Cadman, intermediate between the
Old Celtic Catumanus
and the modern Welsh Cadfan...
(Encyclopaedia Britannica, Chisholm, v.4, 1910)
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