And then "and then for THIS two page span Beowulf is a Christian, no this part wasn't added by the monks that transcribed this why would you say that" sorry no i'm not bitter
Not necessarily. Plenty of texts do not need an oral source. People can just...come up with stuff. Or they may have based them loosely on many different folk tales. But whoever was circulating these stories were Christian at any rate, or most likely.
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The dichotomy of oral vs written text is a difficult one. People who study early medieval Ireland have been having that debate for decades. It’s very probable that these texts hold older traditions, but we cannot know the extent to which the text remains “true” to those.
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And as for all oral texts there is rarely ever one composer.
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