| Front | Beowulf |
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| Back | the most famous and the longer surviving poem in old English, written c. 1000 in the west Saxon dialect the setting is southern Scandinavia in the age of migration of the 5th, and 6th centuries and reference to Britain epic, recording the great deeds of the heroic warrior Beowulf in his youth and maturity |
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