...U in thii light only that I can view a work evincing a knowledge of Northern localities and pertons hardly to be acquired by a native of England in those...parentage. As a monument of language the poem of Beowulf U highly valuable, but far more valuable is it as a vivid and faithful picture of old Northern manners...

...Anglo-Saxon version of a Latin author, or even a metrical paraphrase of a prose writer in his own tongue *, and, on seeing its numerous misconceptions of the...existed in the halls of the kingly and the noble at the remote period to which it relates. In this respect, where are we to look for its like ? Who presents...

...hesitate to regard it as a Christian paraphrase of heathen Saga, and those allusions as ii terpolations of the paraphrast, whom I conceive to have been a...existed in the halls of the kingly and the noble at the remote period to which it relates. In this respect, where are we to look for its like? — THORPE,...

...language of the North, and probably brought to this country during the sway of the Danish dynasty. . . From the allusions to Christianity contained in the...existed in the halls of the kingly and the noble at the remote period to which it relates. In this respect, where are we to look for its like ?— THORPE,...