Excerpt from Beowulf: Edited With Textual Foot-Notes, Index of Proper Names, and Alphabetical GlossaryA lengthy apology for preparing an English edition of the Beowulf is perhaps hardly necessary. The earlier English editions are long since out of print, and the poem has therefore been almost unobtainable, except in the German editions of Heyne and Holder}. Excellent as these may be in several ways, they are ill adapted for the average English student, besides having one or more very marked defects. Holder's foot-notes are as unreliable as his text is reliable. Beyne's glossary, like that of most German editions, stands self-condernned, in that he fre quently forgets the absurd, artificial order of letters on which it is based. Furthermore, his glossary amounts to a translation and this of itself tends to rob the Work of much of its educative value for the serious student.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.