Beowulf: With the Finnsburg Fragment (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Beowulf: With the Finnsburg Fragment

This practice is probably sound: and in accordance with it I have made no pretence here to deal with questions of the higher criticism. I hope to attempt this in an Intro duction to the Study of Beowulf, which is to be issued separately. But an editor ought to give an account of the principles upon 'which he has worked, and the relation of his text to the ms. This duty is particularly incumbent upon him, when he is revising a standard text.

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