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

by R. W. Chambers

[106] Even assuming that a MS of Beowulf had found its way to Iceland, it would have been unintelligible. This is shown by the absurd blunders made when Icelanders borrowed names from the O.E. genealogies.

[107] Cf. Olrik, A. f. n. F., VIII (N.F. IV), 368-75; and Chadwick, Origin, 125-6.

[108] Pub. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. XXVII, 208 etc.

[109] Cotton. Gnomic Verses, ll. 42-3.

[110] Fornmannasǫgur, III, 204-228.

[111] Hammershaimb, Færōiske Kvœder, II, 1855, Nos. 11 and 12.

[112] A. I. Arwidsson, Svenska Fornsånger, 1834-42, Nos. 8 and 9.

[113] Boer, Beowulf, 177-180.

[114] ll. 1553-6.

[115] l. 455.