Beowulf Is the Rosetta Stone for All of This Stuff

Beowulf is the Rosetta Stone for all of this stuff. There's definitely a paganism in there, but it's such a perfect weaving together of things that it's almost impossible to disentangle it. The Beowulf poet is one of the most cautious writers who's ever lived. He was very artistic and would not make a mistake like that.

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