| Beowulf, and the Finnesburh Fragment: Translated from the Old English, with an Introductory Sketch and Notes Contributor(s): Child, Clarence Griffin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1334364524 ISBN-13: 9781334364525 Publisher: Forgotten Books OUR PRICE: $10.53 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Medieval - Poetry | Epic - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6" W x 9" (0.41 lbs) 132 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
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| Publisher Description: Excerpt from Beowulf, and the Finnesburh Fragment: Translated From the Old English, With an Introductory Sketch and Notes Great indeed would have been our loss, if the most precious monument of Teutonic antiquity, the only remaining folk-epic of the Germanic peoples, had per iehed in doing menial service to grocer or soap-seller, or been cut to strips by the book-binder. It was to run a further risk. More than a hundred of the Cotton manuscripts were destroyed or lost, and ninety-eight, among them the Beowulf, injured, by the fire in 1731 in Little Dean's Yard, Westminster, where they were housed. The edges of the Beowulf were charred, but, fortunately, parchment resists flame to a remarkable degree, as appeared also recently in the de plorable disaster to the library at Turin. The charred edges, however, crumbled easily, and many words and letters have disappeared between 1786, when Thorkelin used the manuscript, and the present time. The manu script was not carefully bound and safeguarded for merly, as it is now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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. |