Beowulf is not folk-song,but belongs to a much more conscious and devepoped stage of art than the popular.The exploits narrted in the poem belong to the life of Germanic peoples before they crossed the North Sea,and the least one of the characters can be identified whith a historical personage.Simple almple almost to bareness in style,withour subtlety or high imageination,the Song of Roland is yet not without grandeur;and its patriotic ardor gives it a place as the earliest of the truly national

BEOWULF
TRANSLATED BY FRANCIS B.GUMMERE
PART Ⅰ-THE TREASON OF GANELON
PART Ⅱ-THE PRELUDE OF THE GREAT BATTLE
PART Ⅲ-THE REPRISALS
THE DESTRUCTION OF DA' DERGA'S HOSTEL
THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO ARE MOST NOTEWORTHY IN THIS STORY
A PROLOGUE IN VERSE
SONGS FROM THE ELDER EDDA
PART OF THE SECOND LAY OF THLGI HUNDING'S-BANE
PART OF THE LAY OF SIGRDRIFA
THE LAY CALLED THE SHORT LAY OF SIGURD
THE HELL-RIDE OF BRYNHILD
FRAGMENTS OF THE LAY OF BRYNHILD
THE SECOND OR ANCIENT LAY OF GUDRUN
THE SONG OF ATLI
THE WHETTING OF GUDRUN
THE LAY OF HAMDIR
THE LAMENT OF ODDRUN