"Based on the third edition, with first and second supplements, of Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg, edited [with introduction, bibliography, notes, glossary, and appendices] by Fr. Klaeber [c1950].". - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Beowulf: Introduction. Text, with apparatus of variants. Commentary -- The fight at Finnsburg: Introduction. Plate of Hickes's edition. Text, with apparatus of variants. Commentary -- Appendices: A., Parallels (analogues and illustrative passages). B., Index of references to early Germanic culture. Textual criticism. The texts of Waldere and the Old High German Hildebrandslied -- Glossary
"Frederick Klaeber's Beowulf has long been the standard edition for study by students and advanced scholars alike. Its wide-ranging coverage of scholarship, its comprehensive philological aids, and its exceptionally thorough notes and glossary have ensured its continued use in spite of the fact that the book has remained largely unaltered since 1936. The fourth edition has been prepared with the aim of updating the scholarship while preserving the aspects of Klaeber's work that have made it useful to students of literature, linguists, historians, folklorists, manuscript specialists, archaeologists, and theorists of culture."--Jacket
Features an introduction and a commentary that incorporates the scholarship on "Beowulf" that has appeared since 1950. This work includes detailed bibliographic guidance to discussion of textual cruces, as well as to modern and contemporary critical...
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Features an introduction and a commentary that incorporates the scholarship on "Beowulf" that has appeared since 1950. This work includes detailed bibliographic guidance to discussion of textual cruces, as well as to modern and contemporary critical concerns. It also addresses aids to pronunciation and advances in the study of the poem's language.
