The manuscript had long been presumed lost and, as a result, had never previously been examined in detail by Bede scholars.
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Hundreds of years ago, people spoke Old English – but it is very different to English today.
Today most societies take the A.D. time system for granted. That wasn’t always the case.
Since the middle ages, scholars have been saying that our dates might be out by decades.
The medieval English scholar was a devoted student of Computus – the calculation of the date of Easter.
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