Making sense of Ker's dates: the origins of "Beowulf" and the palaeographers
Ever since the Nowell Codex began to attract serious interest, almost two hundred years ago, scholars have debated the antiquity of its fourth text, referred to since J. M. Kemble’s edition of 1833 as Beowulf. The question continues to engage Anglo-Saxonists because, as Roy Liuzza points out, it ‘fo...
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Project Woruldhord
2005
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