Contents
- New selections are highlighted in bold text
- The Translation - E. Talbot Donaldson
Abbreviations
The Text of Beowulf - Backgrounds and Context
- The Beowulf Manuscript
- Tribes and Genealogies
- MAP: The Geography of Beowulf
- Robert C. Hughes - The Origins of Old English to 800 AD
- MAP: The Continental Homelands of the Germanic Invaders
- MAP: The English Kingdoms at the Beginning of the Seventh Century AD
- E. Talbot Donaldson - [Old English Prosody and CĘdmon’s Hymn]
- Criticism
- Fred C. Robinson - Appositive Style and the Theme of Beowulf
- Roberta Frank - The Beowulf Poet’s Sense of History
- John D. Niles - Reconceiving Beowulf: Poetry as Social Praxis
- Michael Lapidge - Beowulf and the Psychology of Terror
- Joyce Hill - "Ęt WĘs Geomuru Ides!" A Female Sterotype Examined
- Helen Bennett - The Female Mourner at Beowulf’s Funeral: Filling in the Blanks/ Hearing the Spaces
- Nicholas Howe - The Uses of Uncertainty: On the Dating of Beowulf
- Glossary of Proper Names
Selected Bibliography
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