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What is considered the oldest English epic? The Canterbury Tales Beowulf "The Wanderer" "Widsith"
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What is considered the oldest English epic? The Canterbury Tales Beowulf "The Wanderer" "Widsith"

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Beowulf is considered the oldest and one of the most celebrated English Epics.
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B: Beowulf

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Beowulf is considered the oldest English epic, also the longest of known poems in Old English and the first major recorded poem in a european vernacular language. It was written 350 years before the time of William the Conqueror (around 975- 1000 AD). The Canterbury Tales is a Satire , The Wanderer is an Elegy , and Widsith is a traveller's poem/song.

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