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Referenced as a comparison when describing Richard the Fearless's tomb, which was 'not in a church, but a great earthen mound looking out to sea. So like something out of Beowulf.'

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Referenced as the Old English poem featuring one of the two significant dragons in northern literature, where an aged Beowulf fights and kills a dragon but dies from his wounds

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Mentioned in passing as an example of Anglo-Saxon literature where oaths are taken seriously: 'If you read one of the Norse sagas or something, or one of the Anglo-Saxon sort of poems, I don't know, Beowulf or something'

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Mentioned as Tolkien's great academic obsession, with the character Gollum compared to Grendel from this Old English epic

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Discussed as 'one of the great founding documents of English literature' that Tolkien brought into scholarly limelight

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Referenced in discussion of Norse/Scandinavian traditions of the undead, noting 'in a sense, Beowulf is kind of, you know, the monster'