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Beowulf: BEOWULF!
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009. Beowulf may have been composed as an elegy for a king who died in the seventh century, but there is little evidence to indicate who that king may have been. The burial rites described in the epic show a great similarity to the evidence found at Sutton Hoo, but too much remains unknown to form a direct correlation between the poem and the burial site. In 1731, it suffered irreparable damage in a fire. In 1845, the pages of the manuscript were mounted in paper frames to save them ...
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Beowulf: July 2009
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009. Beowulf may have been composed as an elegy for a king who died in the seventh century, but there is little evidence to indicate who that king may have been. The burial rites described in the epic show a great similarity to the evidence found at Sutton Hoo, but too much remains unknown to form a direct correlation between the poem and the burial site. In 1731, it suffered irreparable damage in a fire. In 1845, the pages of the manuscript were mounted in paper frames to save them ...
