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THE POEM GIVES TWO INCOMPATIBLE ACCOUNTS OF THIS RACE AND THE RECORD GIVES BOTH. Unferth's version and Beowulf's version differ on who won and on what happened at sea, and a registry that picked one would be adjudicating a quarrel the poem stages on purpose.

Relations

• contended with: Beowulf

Sources

• Reference treatments of Beowulf and of the Unferth exchange.