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Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem - Unknown ยท 40 words
The present work is a modest effort to reproduce approximately, in modern measures, the venerable epic, Beowulf. Approximately, I repeat; for a very close reproduction of Anglo Saxon verse would, to a large extent, be prose to a modern ear.
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