 | Beowulf - 1835 - 346 pages
...and a half earlier than Hengest ; I have I trust rendered it probable that on the contrary Beówulf was nearly Hengest's contemporary. The poem contained...1605. p. 557. is also obvious that an older and far completer poem has once existed; of which, the numerous blunders both in sense and versification, the... | |
 | 1837 - 756 pages
...manuscript, written itself in the tenth century, the poem bears undeniable marks of a much earlier origin. " In spite of its generally heathen character, there...at least at a period subsequent to AD 597. But it is also obvious that an older and far completer poem has once existed ; of which the numerous blunders,... | |
 | Joseph Bosworth - 1838 - 962 pages
...Hengist;t but the poem contained in the Cotton MS. British Museum, Vitellius, A. xv. is not so old. There occur in it Christian allusions which fix this text at least at a period subsequent to AD 597. Some eminent scholars attribute this MS. to the early part of the 10th century.J * Turner's Hist, of... | |
 | Jean Louis de Lolme, Archibald John Stephens - 1838 - 718 pages
...Kemlile, Pref. xx. Loud. 1833); but the poem contained in the Cotton MS. A'it. A. xv. is not so old. There occur in it Christian allusions which fix this text, at least, at a period subsequent to AD 5U7. 8omc eminent scholars attribute this MS. to the early period of the tenth century. Conybeare's... | |
 | Joseph Bosworth - 1848 - 248 pages
...Hengist;t but the poem contained in the Cotton MS., British Museum, Vitellius, A. xv. is not so old. There occur in it Christian allusions which fix this text at least at a period subsequent to AD 597. Some eminent scholars attribute this MS. to the early part of the lOlh century. J From this fine poem... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1848 - 456 pages
...But Mr. Bosworth states that " the poem contained in the Cottonian MS, British Museum, is not BO old. There occur in it Christian allusions which fix this text at least at a period subsequent to AD 697." INTRODUCTION. mens that have come down to us, it is evident that they were merely dialects of... | |
 | Louis F. Klipstein - 1849 - 468 pages
...probable that on the contrary Beowulf was nearly Hengest's contemporary. "The poem contamed in the Colt. MS. Vitellius. A. xv., and of which as accurate a...allusions which fix this text at least at a period subseqnent to AD 597. But it is also obvious that i» older and far completer poem has once existed... | |
 | Louis F. Klipstein - 1849 - 482 pages
...Beowulf was nearly Hengest's contemporary. "The poem contained in the Cott. MS. Vitctlius. A. iv., and of which as accurate a copy as I could make is...which fix this text at least at a period subsequent to A.. D. 597. But it is also obvious that an older and far compléter poem has once existed ; of which,... | |
 | Louis F. Klipstein - 1849 - 482 pages
...contemporary. "The poem contained in the Cott. MS. Vitdlius' A. xv., and of which as accurate a copy as I conld make is now presented to the reader, is, no doubt,...Christian allusions which fix this text at least at a per,od subsequent to AD 59". But it is also obvions that an older and far completer poem has once existed... | |
 | Louis F. Klipstein - 1849 - 524 pages
...copy as I conld make is now presented to the reader, is, no donht, not in its present form referahle to so high an antiquity. In spite of its generally...allusions which fix this text at least at a period suhseqnent to AD 597. But it is also ohvions that an older and far completer poem has once existed;... | |
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A. xv, and of which as accurate a copy as I could make is now presented to the reader, is, no doubt, not in its present form referable to so high an antiquity. In spite of its generally heathen character there occur in it Christian allusions which fix... 
