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

by R. W. Chambers

[631] Cf. Tupper in Pub. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. XXVI, 275.

[632] P.B.B. XLII, 347-410. A theory as to the date of Beowulf, in some respects similar, was put forward by Mone in 1836: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der teutschen Heldensage, p. 132.

[633] See above, p. [103]; and Brandl in Pauls Grdr. (2) II, 1000, where the argument is excellently stated.

[634] See Olrik, Sakses Oldhistorie, 1894, 190-91.

[635] See Björkman, Eigennamen im Beowulf, 77.

[636] Sarrazin's attempt to prove such corruption is an entire failure. Cf. Brandl in Herrig's Archiv, CXXVI, 234; Björkman, Eigennamen im Beowulf, 58 (Heaðo-Beardan).

[637] A few Geatic adventurers may have taken part in the Anglo-Saxon invasion, as has been argued by Moorman (Essays and Studies, V). This is likely enough on a priori grounds, though many of the etymologies of place-names quoted by Moorman in support of his thesis are open to doubt.

[638] P.B.B. XLII, 366-7.

[639] History of England to the Norman Conquest, I, 245.

[640] Heroic Age, 52-6. I have tried to show ([Appendix F]) that these accounts of cremation are not so archaeologically correct as has sometimes been claimed.