The Origins of Beowulf
A thoroughly plausible scenario for the poet's interest in affairs long ago and far away. --Times Literary Supplementuseful survey of work on the manuscript, language, metrics, archaeology (Especially East Anglian ship burials), and, in particular, the connections of Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies with named figures in the poem... an informed and well-balanced study of the state of the argument. --Early Meideval Europe