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Excerpt from Be�wulf, an Anglo-Saxon Poem, And, the Fight at Finnsburh, a Fragment: With Text and Glossary on the Basis of M. Heyne
Sociu's' edition of Heyne's Beowulf (called the fifth edition) has been utilized to some extent in this edition, though it unfortu nately came too late to be freely used. While it repeats many of the omissions and inaccuracies of Heyne's fourth edition, it con tains much that is valuable to the student, particularly in the notes and commentary. Students of the poem, which has been subjected to much searching criticism during the last decade, will also derive especial help from the contributions of Sievers and Kluge on difficult questions appertaining to it. Vviilker's new edition (in the Grein Bibliothek) is of the highest value, however one may dissent from particular textual views laid down in the Berichtigter Text.' Paul and Braune's Beitr'age contain a varied miscellany of hints, corrections, and suggestions principally embody ing the views of Kluge, Cosijn, Sievers, and Bugge, some Of the more important of which are found in the appendices to the pres ent and the preceding edition. Holder and Zupitza, Sarrazin and Hermann m'oller (kiel, Heinzel (anzeiger f. D. Alterthum, Gering (zacher's Zeitschrift, Brenner (eng. Studien, and the contributors to Anglia, have assisted materially in the textual and metrical interpretation of the poem.
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