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  1. Sep 2018
  2. Aug 2018
    1. He assumed in other words, that the Beowulf poet was an imaginative writer rather than some kind of back-formation derived from nineteenth-century folklore and philology.

      An answer to why there were supernatural elements but does not seem entirely accurate to assume the entire work is fiction

    2. was then transcribed and titled, retranscribed and edited, translated and adapted, interpreted and taught, until it has become an acknowledged classic.

      The text was heavily changed from its original state, and may be vastly different than the original story. It is a thousand year old game of telephone to try and decipher what ancient historians meant