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Beowulf

By Nancy King

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wmra/local-wmra-674225.mp3

Charlottesville, VA – A thousand-year-old poem has experienced an unlikely cultural revival in the last ten years. Nancy King, with the radio program With Good Reason, sought an explanation from a Virginia scholar about the curious popularity of Beowulf.