Includes the work and contextual materials on the early medieval age. This edition contains the translation of the work by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, with additional commentary and notes by editor Sarah Anderson, that explain unfamiliar terms, cultural references, and literary allusions.

From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Beowulf, edited by Sarah Anderson and translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, includes the complete work and contextual materials on the early medieval age.

List of Illustrations.
About Longman Cultural Editions.
About This Edition.
Introduction.
Translators' Introduction.
Beowulf.
Glossary of Proper Names.
Genealogies.
Contexts.
The Beowulf Manuscript.
The "Monsters in the Manuscript."
The "Kin of Cain": Genesis 4: 1-16.
The "Flood": Genesis 6: 1-9, 17.
Liber Monstrorum (Part I, Chapter 2).
Blickling Homily 17 (excerpt from ll).
Gregory of Tours, from History of the Franks.
The Finnsburh Fragment.
Widsith.
Deor.
Maxims I.
Vainglory.
From Hameismal.
Bragi the Old, Ragnarsdrapa.
FromThe Saga of Grettir the Son of Asmund.
From The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki.
From The Saga of Thidrek of Bern.
Snorri Sturluson, excerpts from Heimskringla.
Sven Aageson, from A Brief History of the Kings of Denmark.
Saxo Grammaticus, from Gesta Danorum.
Bede, from Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
Alcuin, What Has Ingeld To Do With Christ?
Wulfstan, On False Gods.
Wulfstan, The Sermon of the "Wolf" to the English.
Edgar's Canons.
Cnut's Laws .
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Material Remains: Archaeological Analogues.
Texts and Translations.
Further Reading.