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The original "author" or orator of Beowulf is unknown, as are the authors of similar works such as Hrolf Kraki's Saga and Gisli the Outlaw.

The source of Beowulf is unknown. The assumption is that it may have come from traditional oral sources in England going back before the 8th century CE in the style of Norse Eddas. The poem was put into writing sometime between the 8th century and11th century in Old English, the language of the Saxons. Beowulf is the oldest surviving epic poem in the English language. and the earliest European literature written in the common language.

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