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What We Know About Anglo Saxon Poetry
Virtually nothing is known about fifth century britain. We really don't know what really happened, because 99 % of it is lost. So i wanted to find out te way, in terms historical analogy for this. And then it has to come back to the surface at just the right time that somebody who knows what they're looking at finds it before it weathers away or is trampled over by goats. That's why i was helping to excavate old gos 20 years ago. I think there are wat 24 thousand lines of anglo saxon poetry. Shakespeare wrote more than that. It took those 24 thousand lines were accumulated over 600 years. But you never know,
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