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Beowulf

D. C. Whaley

in The Oxford Companion to British History


Published online January 2009 | e-ISBN: 9780199567638

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Anglo-Saxon poem. This anonymous epic of 3,182 lines is preserved in BL Cotton Vitellius A. XV, written c.1000. Provenance,

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Subjects: British history

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