The poem 'Judith' is an Old English adaptation of a story from which source?
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Correct answer: The Apocrypha of the Bible
The poem 'Judith' retells the story from the Book of Judith in the Biblical Apocrypha, focusing on the heroine's beheading of the Assyrian general Holofernes. It adapts biblical narrative into the traditional Germanic heroic idiom of Old English verse.
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