Beowulf : a verse translation : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / translated by Seamus Heaney ; edited by Daniel Donoghue.

Includes bibliographical references.

The text of Beowulf ---- Contents -- The Beowulf manuscript / Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson -- [Cain and Abel] / Genesis 4.1-16 -- Hall-Feasts and the Queen -- Grettir the Strong and the trollwoman -- Sigemund's exploits -- The Frisian slaughter : episode and fragment -- "What has Ingeld to do with Christ?" / Alcuin -- History of the Franks [Hygelac's raid into Frisia] / Gregory of Tours -- [Genealogy of the royal family of Wessex] / William of Malmesbury -- On the wars between the Swedes and the Geats -- Geneologies of the royal families in Beowulf -- Map : the Scandinavian setting of Beowulf -- The kingdoms and tribes of Beowulf -- Beowulf's name / R. D. Fulk and Joseph Harris ---- Criticism -- Beowulf : the monsters and the critics / J. R. R. Tolkien -- The great feud : scriptural history and strife in Beowulf / Marijane Osborn -- The structural unity of Beowulf : the problem of Grendel's mother / Jane Chance -- The Beowulf poet's sense of history / Roberta Frank -- The tomb of Beowulf / Fred C. Robinson -- Archaeology and Beowulf / Leslie Webster -- The philologer poet : Seamus Heaney and the translation of Beowulf / Daniel Donoghue -- Beowulf and perception / Michael Lapidge -- "Beowulf" and the emergent occasion / Andrew Scheil.