![]() 400 CE with a runic inscription around the rim of a golden horn from Gallehus, Jutland, not far from the ancestral homeland of the Angles in Schleswig. There is indeed consensus that an archaic oral tradition of highly allusive alliterative verse lies behind the prosody of the poem, since the same kind of poetry appears wherever verse is first recorded in a Germanic language over hundreds of miles of territory and a millennium of time, beginning ca. ![]() He claims that there is scholarly "consensus" (xiii) that this Old English poem was composed-or first committed to writing-around the year 700 CE among one of the Anglian peoples to the north of England, closely replicating ancient metrical forms and legendary traditions shared by other Germanic-speaking migrants to Britain and elsewhere during the fifth and sixth centuries. Smith several studies and collections that he has published over the past few years the author pursues with unusual devotion his quest for an early Beowulf. ![]()
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