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Scholars who favored Irish parallels directly spoke out against pro-Scandinavian theories, citing them as unjustified.
Wilhelm Grimm is noted to be the first person to ever link Beowulf with Irish folklore.
Max Deutschbein is noted as the first person to present the argument in academic form.
He suggested the Irish Feast of Bricriu as a source for Beowulf — a theory that was soon denied by Oscar Olson.
Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow argued against both Scandinavian translation and source material due to his theory that Beowulf is fundamentally Christian and written at a time when any Norse tale would have most likely been pagan in nature.
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