Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn

by R. W. Chambers

Z.f.d.A. = Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum. Leipzig, Berlin, 1841 etc.

Z.f.d.Ph. = Zachers Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie. Halle, 1869 etc.

Z.f.ö.G. = Zeitschrift für die österreichischen Gymnasien. Wien, 1850 etc.

The titles of other periodicals are given with sufficient fulness for easy identification.

[§ 2]. BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Bibliographies have been published from time to time as a supplement to Anglia; also in the Jahresbericht über...german. Philologie; by Garnett in his Translation, 1882 etc.; and will be found in

Wülker's Grundriss (with very useful abstracts), 1885, pp. 245 etc.

Clark Hall's Translation, 1901, 1911.

Holthausen's Beowulf, 1906, 1909, 1913, 1919.

Brandl's Englische Literatur, in Pauls Grdr.(2), II, 1015-24 (full, but not so reliable as Holthausen's).

Sedgefield's Beowulf, 1910, 1913 (carefully selected).

An excellent critical bibliography of Beowulf-translations up to 1903 is that of Tinker: see under [§ 6], Translations.

[§ 3]. THE MS AND ITS TRANSCRIPTS