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to modern interpretation of the work.

Metrical form

Most of the poem is in alliterative verse of very uneven quality.Some lines contain rhymes, using a poetic form pioneered in the ninth century by Otfrid of Weissenburg .This formal unevenness has often led scholars to regard the surviving text as a composite made up of older material and younger accretions - an impression reinforced by the poem's thematic and stylistic diversity. But it

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