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Benjamin bagby was a participant in that meeting, where he also performed his version of beowulf. Performed by internationally renowned composer, singer, and harpist, benjamin bagby. It is the story of three children a peasant girl named jeanne, a jewish boy named jacob, and a young monkintraining of african descent named william. Benjamin bagby 74 has made a career out of reviving the past, bringing to life on stage the ancient role of the early medieval english scop, or bardic storyteller the first vocalstudies graduate from oberlin to specialize in early music, bagby founded the internationally acclaimed sequentia, an ensemble for early music, in 1977. Old english eng 263 clark family library at washington. To fight her, beowulf must follow her to an underwater cave. While beowulf has come down to us through literature as a written poem. Beowulf and other old english poems craig williamson.
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