BEOWULF: A HISTORICAL, LITERARY, AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF AN EPIC POEM
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Literature, as one of the oldest spiritual sources of humanity, reflects the religious beliefs, customs, heroic ideals, and social consciousness of a nation. One of such monumental works is Beowulf, regarded as the earliest epic heritage of English literature. Originating from the oral traditions of the 6th–8th centuries, the poem was later transcribed into written form. This epic synthesizes the Germanic tribes’ concepts of valor, loyalty, fate (wyrd), and religious worldview. According to Klaus Klaeber (1922), Beowulf serves as one of the primary historical-literary sources for studying Anglo-Saxon life.
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