Beowulf as Pre-National Epic: Ethnocentrism in the Poem and its Criticism

@article{Neidorf2018BeowulfAP,
  title={Beowulf as Pre-National Epic: Ethnocentrism in the Poem and its Criticism},
  author={Leonard Neidorf},
  journal={ELH},
  year={2018},
  volume={85},
  pages={847 - 875}
}
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