Contents
- List of Illustrations
Preface
The Language and Prosody of Old English
Translator’s Introduction
The Text of Beowulf - Context
- The Beowulf Manuscript
- Cain and Abel, Genesis 4:1-16
- Hall Feasts and the Queen: from an Old English Poem
- Grettir the Strong and the Trollwoman
- The Frisian Slaughter - Episode and Fragment
- Alcuin - "What has Ingeld to do with Christ?"
- Gregory of Tours - Hygelac’s Raid into Frisia
- William of Malmesbury - Genealogy of the Royal Family of Wessex
- On the Wars between the Swedes and the Geats
- Genealogies of the Royal Families in Beowulf
- The Kingdoms of Tribes of Beowulf
- Beowulf’s Name
- Criticism
- J. R. R. Tolkein - Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
- John Leyerle - The Interlace Structure of Beowulf
- Jane Chance - The Structural Unity of Beowulf: Grendel’s Mother
- Roberta Frank - The Beowulf Poet’s Sense of History
- Fred C. Robinson - The Tomb of Beowulf
- Thomas Hill - The Christian Language and Theme of Beowulf
- Leslie Webster - Archaeology and Beowulf
- Daniel Donoghue - The Philologer Poet: Seamus Heaney and the Translation of Beowulf
- Glossary of Proper Names
Selected Bibliography
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