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Reference Entry

Beowulf

in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages

Published in print January 2010 | ISBN: 9780198662624
Published online January 2010 | e-ISBN: 9780199574834
Beowulf

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The premier example of early Germanic literature, Beowulf is an anonymous OE poem of 3,182 alliterative verses composed in AS

Reference Entry.  368 words. 

Subjects: early history (500 CE to 1500)

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