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“Beowulf: Why the Oldest English Epic Still Gets Under Our Skin”
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Title: Beowulf
Author: Unknown
Category: Culture & Society, Writing, Language & Storytelling, Philosophy & Big Ideas
A thousand-year-old poem about a guy fighting monsters — why does it still get under our skin?
Sam and Sophie walk through Beowulf from its opening funeral to its closing one, showing how the poem is really about death, fame, and what it means to live well. They trace the heroic…
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