'halette 7 grette 7 hine be his noman nemnde: Cedmon' - Bede has salutans ac suo appellans nomine 'Cædmon', 'saluting him and calling him by name, Cædmon'. Cædmon's name is probably Celtic in origin, deriving from cæd, 'a boat'. It is implied that Cædmon's mysterious interlocutor is an angel.