Andreas
Old English poem
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The Andreas is an Old English poem found in the Vercelli Book, a manuscript from the late 10th century. This poem tells the apocryphal story of St. Andrew and his adventures with the Mermedonians, a mythical cannibalistic people. The Andreas is noted for its stylistic similarities to the epic poem Beowulf. It is considered part of the "Cynewulf group" of poems, though not definitively by Cynewulf himself.12
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