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The Heroic Age

Note 70 — Chapter IV · THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE HEROIC POEMS.

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Waldhere, Deor and Widsith all contain 'Christian' passages, like Beowulf. The interpolations in Widsith (e.g. vv. 15 f., 82 ff.) appear to have been made by some one who possessed a certain amount of erudition; but there is no need to attribute them to a different period.

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