Beowulf and the Beowulf manuscript
British Library
Epic poetry, English (Old)
Monsters in literature
Beowulf
Heroes in literature
British Museum
Criticism, Textual
Medieval Manuscripts
Editing
Textual Criticism
Manuscripts
In literature
When this book first appeared in 1981, most scholars agreed that Beowulf was an early eighth-century poem and few of them had shown any interest in the early eleventh-century manuscript that preserved it. Today they disagree widely, dating the poem anywhere between the eighth and the eleventh centur…
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