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	Beowulf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It suffered irreparable damage in the Cotton Library fire at the ominously-named Ashburnham House in 1731.
		Icelandic scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin made the first transcription of the manuscript in 1786 and published it in 1815, working under a historical research commission of the Danish government.
		Since that time, the manuscript has suffered additional decay, and the Thorkelin transcripts remain a prized secondary source for Beowulf scholars.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beowulf (4731 words)

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		The manuscript suffered some irreversible damage in a fire at the ominously-named Ashburnham House in 1731.
		Icelandic scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin made the first transcription of the manuscript in 1818, working under a historical research commission by the Danish government.
		The story traces the life of a heroic king of the Geats called Beowulf, and his great battles with the troll-like monster Grendel, then Grendel's mother, and finally with a fire-breathing dragon in the battle which costs Beowulf his life.
	www.icyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/be/beowulf.html (883 words)

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