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This is a picture of the first page of the only known Beowulf manuscript. It is written in prose, rather than poetry; however it is translated as poetry. Note that it is written by a scribe, and that it is pretty hard for a Modern English speaker to translate without a prior understanding of the Old English alphabet.
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