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Beowulf

David Leeming

in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology

Published in print January 2005 | ISBN: 9780195156690
Published online January 2006 | e-ISBN: 9780199916481
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The hero of the eighth-century Anglo-Saxon epic poem named for him, Beowulf represents a combination of the Christian values of

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