- He is almost certainly not the original writer of Beowulf, but he transcribed an earlier Anglo-Saxon poem and may have been the one to imbue it with Christian sensibilities.
- The works of this anonymous monk and all other monks of that time were scattered and nearly eliminated during Henry VIII's disolution of Catholic monasteries circa 1560.
- Most likely a monk/scribe working in pre-Norman times, quite possilby in Northumbria or Mercia, as a Mercian king is given a glowing mention at one point in the poem.
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