They develop a meticulous system of counting the number of words in each book of the Bible to make sure they have copied it accurately. Any scroll found to have an error is buried according to Jewish law. Christianity reaches Britain before 300, but Anglo-Saxon pagans drive Christian Britons into Wales (450-600). In 596, Augustine of Canterbury begins evangelization again. Caedmon, an illiterate monk, retells portions of Scripture in Anglo-Saxon (Old English) poetry and song (676). Aldhelm