Suggests that major works of orally grounded literature, like “Beowulf,” are the result of collective engagement with the question of what wisdom is. Claims “Beowulf” is the result of a set of cultural transformations and a means by which such transformations took place. Suggests it speaks to traditional verse’s role in the consolidation of new mentalities.

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