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 | Book by Anonymous | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Anonymous” of course means “without a name” and is used when the author is not known-or sometimes, as in the case of Beowulf, when a story develops out of an oral tradition over generations with possibly many storytellers contributing to and revising the tale before it is finally written down and becomes literature.

Detailed explanation-4: -The author was an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, referred to by scholars as the “Beowulf poet". The poem is set in Scandinavia. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel.

Detailed explanation-5: -Origins of ‘Beowulf’ Many believe that “Beowulf” may have been composed as an elegy for a king who died in the seventh century, but little evidence indicates who that king may have been.