... close at hand. Then the trench was filled and a mound was built over the ship. This idea of a burial mound is similar to what we saw at the end of Beowulf where we read: To the Anglo-Saxons, burial goods were considered practical items that could be used by the dead in the next life and the ship would be the ... were sixteen silver artifacts of eastern Mediterranean origin. The largest of these is a seventy-two-centimeter-wide dish with maker's marks dating from the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I, Beowulf(491-528). There was also a bronze bowl of a type known as "Coptic" be...

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