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English: Detail of Folio 137r of the heroic epic poem Beowulf, written primarily in the West Saxon dialect of Old English. It contains part of section III, lines 205-228 of the poem; J.R.R. Tolkien used lines 210-228 in his essay "On Translating Beowulf".
Part of the Cotton MS Vitellius A XV manuscript currently located within the British Library. This is a digital photographic copy of the folio. |
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| Date | circa 975–1025 | |||
| Source | http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_vitellius_a_xv_f094r | |||
| Author | The Beowulf poet | |||
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| current | 13:40, 5 December 2020 | | 512 × 239 (226 KB) | Chiswick Chap | File:Beowulf Cotton MS Vitellius A XV f. 137r.png cropped 3 % horizontally, 72 % vertically |
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