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Excerpt from I. Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon Poem; II. The Fight at Finnsburh, a Fragment: With d104 and Glossary on the Basis of M. Heyne
For the Notes, the editors are much indebted to the various German periodicals mentioned on page 116, to the recent publications of Professors Earle and J. L. Hall, to Mr. S. A. Brooke, and to the heyne-socin edition of Beowulf. No change has been made in the system of accentuation, though a few errors in quantity have been corrected. The editors are looking forward to an event ual fifth edition, in which an entirely new text will be presented. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
