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The Review of English Studies 2005 56(224):192-223; doi:10.1093/res/hgi049
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Some Contested Readings in the Beowulf Manuscript

R. D. Fulk

Indiana University

Efforts to finalize the text in the forthcoming revision of Frederick Klaeber's edition of Beowulf have prompted a re-examination of the sole manuscript of the poem, with the aim of reaching decisions about all the most disputed manuscript readings. Particular attention is focused on the two most severely damaged leaves, on which the text does appear to have been retouched at a later date, though some observers have doubted this. Although palaeographical concerns must remain paramount in the interpretation of the remains of damaged words and letters, other considerations must not be ignored, including the uneven reliability of the testimony of the first modern witnesses to the text, along with the dictates of syntax, sense, and poetic form.


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