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| List of Illustrations | |
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| About Longman Cultural Editions | |
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| About This Edition | |
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| Translators' Introduction | |
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| A Summary of Beowulf | |
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| Glossary of Proper Names | |
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| Table of Dates | |
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| Genealogies | |
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| Beowulf | |
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| Contexts | |
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| The Kin of Cain and The Race of Giants | |
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| from Germania | |
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| from On the Origin and Deeds and of the Goths | |
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| from The History of the Franks | |
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| From Liber monstrorum | |
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| from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People | |
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| from "What has Ingeld to do with Christ?" | |
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| from History of the Britons | |
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| from Life of Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons | |
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| from Chronicle | |
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| from About the Deeds of the English Kings | |
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| from I brief History of the Kings of Denmark | |
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| from The Deeds of the Danes | |
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| Reading Beowulf | |
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| The Manuscript Context | |
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| Comparative Translations of the First Twenty-Five Lines of Beowulf | |
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| from The History of the Manners, Landed Property, Government, Luurs, Poetry, Literature, Religion, and Language of the Anglo-Saxons | |
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| from A Translation of the Anglo-Saxon Poem of Beowulf with a Copious Preface and Philological Notes | |
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| from The Tale of Beowulf | |
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| from The Oldest English Epic: Beowulf, Finnsburg, Waldere, Deor, Widsith, and the German Hildebrand | |
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| from Beowulf and the Finnsburg Fragment: A Translation into Modern English Prose by John R. Clark Hall | |
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| from Beowulf in Modern English: A Translation in Blank Verse | |
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| from Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English | |
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| from A Readable Beowulf: The Old English Epic Newly Translated | |
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| from Beowulf: An Imitative Translation | |
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| Old English Elegiac Poetry | |
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| The Wanderer | |
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| The Seafarer | |
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| Deon | |
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| The Ruin | |
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| Old English Heroic Poetry | |
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| The Battle of Finnsburg | |
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| Waldere | |
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| The Battle of Brunanburh | |
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| Old English Wisdom Poetry | |
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| Vainglory | |
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| Widsith | |
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| From the Fortunes of Men | |
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| From Maxims I | |
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| From Maxims II | |
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| Riddles from the Exeter Book | |
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| Old English Religious Poetry | |
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| From Exodus | |
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| From Judith | |
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| From Christ III | |
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| From Andreas | |
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| Old English Historical Prose | |
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| From the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, entries for the years 793, 827, 855, 865, 878, 901, 946, and 993 | |
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| Old English Legal Prose | |
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| From the Laws of Alfred | |
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| The Treaty between Alfred and Guthrum | |
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| The Preface to the Laws of Cnut | |
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| From the Laws of Cnut | |
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| Old English Religious Prose | |
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| From Blickling Homily XVI | |
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| from On False Gods | |
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| From Sermon of the "Wolf" to the English | |
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| Old Norse Poetry | |
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| From the Elder Edda: Sayings of the High Our and the Lay of Thrym | |
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| Old Norse Prose | |
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| From Grettir's Saga | |
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| From Snorri Sturluson's Saga of the Yuglings | |
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| From the Saga of King Hrolf Kraki | |
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| From the Saga of Gold-Thorir | |
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| From the Icelandic Folktale | |
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| Further Reading | |