The poet Cædmon was well known to have been buried in the English town of Whitby, after which the Whitby School had itself been named.
The band's unusual name was inspired by Cædmon, an Anglo-Saxon cow-herder who lived during the 7th century.
Book IV Chapter 25 of the Historia ecclesiastica appears to suggest that Cædmon's death occurred at about the same time as the fire at Coldingham Abbey, an event dated in the E text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to 679, but after 681 by Bede.
It survives in a Latin translation by Bede in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum and in vernacular versions written down in several manuscripts of Bede's Historia.
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Cædmon's Hymn is a short Old English poem originally composed by Cædmon, in honour of God the Creator.
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