CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| GENEALOGICAL TABLES | [xii] |
| PART I | |
| CHAPTER I. THE HISTORICAL ELEMENTS | |
| Section I. The Problem | [1] |
| Section II. The Geatas—their Kings and their Wars | [2] |
| Section III. Heorot and the Danish Kings | [13] |
| Section IV. Leire and Heorot | [16] |
| Section V. The Heathobeardan | [20] |
| Section VI. Hrothulf | [25] |
| Section VII. King Offa | [31] |
| CHAPTER II. THE NON-HISTORICAL ELEMENTS | |
| Section I. The Grendel Fight | [41] |
| Section II. The Scandinavian Parallels—Grettir and Orm | [48] |
| Section III. Bothvar Bjarki | [54] |
| Section IV. Parallels from Folklore | [62] |
| Section V. Scef and Scyld | [68] |
| Section VI. Beow | [87] |
| Section VII. The house of Scyld and Danish parallels—Heremod-Lotherus and Beowulf-Frotho | [89] |
| CHAPTER III. THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN, DATE AND STRUCTURE OF THE POEM | |
| Section I. Is Beowulf translated from a Scandinavian original? | [98] |
| Section II. The dialect, syntax and metre of Beowulf as evidence of its literary history | [104] |
| Section III. Theories as to the structure of Beowulf | [112] |
| Section IV. Are the Christian elements incompatible with the rest of the poem? | [121] |
| PART II | |
| DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE STORIES IN BEOWULF, AND THE OFFA-SAGA | |
| A. The early Kings of the Danes, according to Saxo Grammaticus: Dan, Humblus, Lotherus and Scioldus; Frotho's dragon fight; Haldanus, Roe and Helgo; Roluo (Rolf Kraki) and Biarco (Bjarki); the death of Rolf | [129] |
| B. Extract from Hrólfs Saga Kraka, with translation (cap. 23) | [138] |
| C. Extracts from Grettis Saga, with translation: (a) Glam episode (caps. 32-35); (b) Sandhaugar episode (caps. 64-66) | [146] |
| D. Extracts from Bjarka Rímur, with translation | [182] |
| E. Extract from Þáttr Orms Stórólfssonar, with translation | [186] |
| F. A Danish Dragon-slaying of the Beowulf-type, with translation | [192] |
| G. The Old English Genealogies. I. The Mercian Genealogy. II. The stages above Woden: Woden to Geat and Woden to Sceaf | [195] |
| H. Extract from the Chronicle Roll | [201] |
| I. Extract from the Little Chronicle of the Kings of Leire | [204] |
| K. The Story of Offa in Saxo Grammaticus | [206] |
| L. From Skiold to Offa in Sweyn Aageson | [211] |
| M. Note on the Danish Chronicles | [215] |
| N. The Life of Offa I, with extracts from the Life of Offa II. Edited from two MSS in the Cottonian Collection | [217] |
| O. Extract from Widsith, II. 18, 24-49 | [243] |
| PART III | |
| THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURG | |
| Section I. The Finnsburg Fragment | [245] |
| Section II. The Episode in Beowulf | [248] |
| Section III. Möller's Theory | [254] |
| Section IV. Bugge's Theory | [257] |
| Section V. Some Difficulties in Bugge's Theory | [260] |
| Section VI. Recent Elucidations. Prof. Ayres' Comments | [266] |
| Section VII. Problems still outstanding | [268] |
| Section VIII. The Weight of Proof: the Eotens | [272] |
| Section IX. Ethics of the Blood Feud | [276] |
| Section X. An Attempt at Reconstruction | [283] |
| Section XI. Gefwulf, Prince of the Jutes | [286] |
| Section XII. Conclusion | [287] |
| Note. Frisia in the heroic age | [288] |
| PART IV | |
| APPENDIX | |
| A. A Postscript on Mythology in Beowulf. (1) Beowulf the Scylding and Beowulf son of Ecgtheow. (2) Beow | [291] |
| B. Grendel | [304] |
| C. The Stages above Woden in the West-Saxon Genealogy | [311] |
| D. Grammatical and literary evidence for the date of Beowulf. The relation of Beowulf to the Classical Epic | [322] |
| E. The "Jute-question" reopened | [333] |
| F. Beowulf and the Archaeologists | [345] |
| G. Leire before Rolf Kraki | [365] |
| H. Bee-wolf and Bear's son | [365] |
| I. The date of the death of Hygelac | [381] |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BEOWULF AND FINNSBURG | [383] |
| INDEX | [414] |