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368 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780199206612
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 05 April 2007
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This book suggests that the Old English epic Beowulf was composed in the winter of 826-7 as a requiem for King Beornwulf of Mercia on behalf of Wiglaf, the ealdorman who succeeded him. The place of composition is given as the minster of Breedon on...
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368 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780199206612
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 05 April 2007
Description
This book suggests that the Old English epic Beowulf was composed in the winter of 826-7 as a requiem for King Beornwulf of Mercia on behalf of Wiglaf, the ealdorman who succeeded him. The place of composition is given as the minster of Breedon on...