What is problematic about calling Beowulf part of Old English literature ?

A. There is no firm concept of when English literature began.

B. Danish and German scholars first claimed the poem.

C. There are no English characters in the poem.

D. The epic poem is written in a language that is unrecognizable to many English speakers.

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