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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