Beowulf's Key Fact

Title: Beowulf

Author: Anonymous

Genre: Epic poem

Originally Composed: c. 700–750 CE

Manuscript: Beowulf exists in a single damaged manuscript in the British Library. The manuscript was probably written in England in the early eleventh century.

Setting: Northern Europe, especially Denmark and Sweden, around the sixth century.

Tense: Beowulf is told primarily in the past tense.