The Heroic Age
Issue 5
Summer/Autumn 2001
Redundant Ethnogenesis in Beowulf
Bibliography Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Stephen Harris, John Hill, Michael Kulikowski, and Eric McKittrick for help with this essay.
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