Year
2021
Publisher
Arc Humanities Press
Language
English
ISBN
978-1-64189-470-8
Last Update
20-Oct-2024
Keywords
Language & Literature ; British Studies ; European Studies ; Folklore
HE OLD ENGLISH poem known as Beowulf was committed to writing in around the year 1010, somewhere in southern England. It has no title in the manuscript, and existed, unnoticed, until the early modern period. No one knows who wrote it, and no one knows when it was composed, though it is certainly earlier than the manuscript in which it is extant, since errors of copying are apparent in that text. It may have circulated as part of the oral tradition, spoken aloud to multiple audiences in, potentially, many variant forms. It has been assumed throughout the scholarly tradition that...
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