The History of English Old English (c. 500 )
Old English literature flowered remarkably quickly after Augustine's arrival. This was especially notable in the northeastern kingdom of Northumbria, which provided England with its first great poet (Caedmon in the 7th Century), its first great historian (the Venerable Bede in the 7th8th Century) and its first great scholar (Alcuin of York in the 8th Century), although the latter two wrote ...