New translation Comprehensive edition with introduction, notes, maps, genealogical tables, illustrations and index Reset with wide Royal format pages to give a clear presentation with generous margins for notes Editor presents the latest scholarship in an introduction, and also includes detailed notes drawing on the latest evidence of palaeographers, archaeologists, textual and social historians, and an extensive bibliography.
Michael Swanton is professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Exeter, and has held visiting professorships at Justus-Liebig Universit t (Germany), and l Universit de Lausanne (Switzerland). Formerly Editor of the Royal Archaeological Institute, he is Fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and The Royal Historical Society, and lectures widely on various aspects of early English culture. His extensive publications include translations of the epic poem Beowulf (1978) and a selection of Anglo-Saxon Prose (2nd edition, Everyman, 1993)
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