Despite his efforts, Yeager provides insufficient reasons as to why Beowulf is important. For a document to be read and studied by thousands of people, it has to contain a lot of value, something that Beowulf does not seem to have. As pointed out, it is surprising that the document still exists; however, that still does not deem it important. If the means of writing the oral tradition into a story is unknown, how can one trust that the story contains an accurate representation of the time period it describes? The material that everyone believes to be from humans of the time could be all made up by the scribes that preserved the text. It is true that Beowulf has inspired a few other works of art, but so have many other legends and stories that
