Excerpt from Beowulf and the Niebelungen Couplet However, though the extant prose renderings of Beowulf, the later as well as the earlier, remain, in nature if not in design, commentary rather than translation, still such is the disputed state of text and interpretation, still such is the implication of technical scholarship with imaginative pleasure, that only such medium will satisfy as verse which satisfies also as an exact record of specific opinion. Can the Niebe lungen verse be adapted to the demands of philology? It seems to me it can. 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. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.