ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The author of Beowulf is unknown. It is possible that the poem was composed by and transmitted between several different poets before it was preserved in a single manuscript that dates to about 1000.

Detailed explanation-2: -Beowulf’s fundamental story, as well as its basic style, belongs to oral traditional literature. Its mythic pattern gives a “deep structure” and layers of meaning stretching back to very ancient times.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was written in England some time between the 8th and the early 11th century. The author was an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, referred to by scholars as the “Beowulf poet.” The poem is set in Scandinavia.