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Which factor significantly complicates the precise dating of original compositions in Old English poetry?
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- 1The presence of runic signatures in all major surviving manuscripts.
- 2The fact that surviving manuscript copies were often made centuries after the poems were originally composed.✓
- 3The complete absence of Christian influence in Old English verse.
- 4The manuscripts being direct translations of lost Continental texts.
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The fact that surviving manuscript copies were often made centuries after the poems were originally composed.
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