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Beowulf
Beowulf (; Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːo.wuɫf]) is an Old English poem, an epic in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines, contained in the Nowell Codex. The story is set in pagan Scandinavia in the 5th and 6th centuries.
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