In the poem Beowulf, the role of the community's formal council, the witan, has not been adequately examined. This group should be juxtaposed with Beowulf who, as a warrior, exhibits the values of individualism, while the witan embodies the values of the community. These communal values are represented, throughout the poem, as the values of knowledge and constitute a poetic sphere of behavior, morality, and society that can reasonably be called the culture of wisdom.
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