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Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

Abstract

Given the epic, heroic, and masculine ethos of the most well-known Anglo-Saxon poems, it is not surprising that women often figure as background characters, moving among the male- dominated hall, serving mead to the warriors, soothing injured egos, and passing from clan to clan as peace-weavers mending old wounds.

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