Excerpt from Epic and Saga, Vol. 49: Beowulf; The Song of Roland; The Destruction of D Derga's Hostel; The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs From Proiessor Gummere's translation, which preserves with great skill the escurial metrical fwures of the original, accent and allitera tion, oneeangetagoodideaoftherhythmicvigoroftheold English. Thetranslationismadefromthesolitarytextwhich hasoomedown to us, a manuscript of the tenth century, now in the British Museum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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