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Beowulf
Beowulf preparing to cut off the head of the monster Grendel, illustration from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race, 1910.
The heroic poem Beowulf did not appear in print until 1815. It is preserved in a single manuscript known as the Beowulf manuscript (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV), which dates to approximately 1000 CE.1