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Beowulf

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Chapter 1 

Word Count: 456    |    Released on: 18/11/2017

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life, till

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wight a wh

reator his

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“Beowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It may be the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature.”