rius," Berlin,
1873, 8vo.

[55] "Autotypes of the unique Cotton MS. Vitellius, A. xv. in the
British Museum," with transliteration and notes, by J. Zupitza, Early
English Text Society, 1882, 8vo. "Beowulf" (Heyne's text), ed. Harrison
and Sharp, Boston, third ed. 1888, 8vo. "Beowulf, a heroic Poem of the
VIIIth Century, with a translation," by T. Arnold, London, 1876, 8vo.
"The deeds of Beowulf ... done into modern prose," ed. Earle, Oxford
Clarendon Press, fifth ed., 1892, 8vo. On English place names recalling
personages in "Beowulf," see D. H. Haigh, "Anglo-Saxon Sagas," London,
1861, 8vo (many doubtful conclusions). The poem consists of 3,183 long
lines of alliterative verse, divided into 41 sections; it is not quite
equal in length to a third of the AEneid.

[56] Such is the opinion of Mr. Ward, "Catalogue of Romances," vol. ii.,
London, 1893, p. 1.

[57] This explains how we find them used in Scandinavian literature as
part of the life of totally different heroes; the Icelandic saga of
Gretti tells how Glam, another Grendel, is destroyed by Gretti, another
Beowulf. On these resemblances, see Excursus iii. in the "Corpus
Poeticum Boreale," vol. ii. p. 501; and H. Gering, "Der Beowulf und die
Islaendische Grettisaga," in "Anglia," vol. iii. p 74.

[58] In Gregory of Tours, book iii. chap. 3 ("Historia Ecclesiastica
Francorum," Societe de l'histoire de France, vol. i. p. 270); in
"Beowulf" II. 1202 _et seq._--

Gehwearf tha in Francna faethm feorh cynninges;--

"The life of the king [Higelac] became the prey of the Franks."
Grundtvig was the first to identify Higelac with the Chlochilaicus of
Gregory of Tours. The battle took place about 515; the Scandinavians led
by "Chlochilaicus" were plundering lands belonging to Thierri, king of
Austrasia (511-534), eldest son of Clovis, when he sent against them his
son Theodebert, famous since, who was to die on his way to
Constantinople in an expedition against the Emperor Justinian.
Theodebert entirely routed the enemy, and took back their plunder,
killing their chief, the Chlochilaicus of Gregory, the Huiglaucus "qui
imperavit Getis, et a Francis occisus est" of an old "Liber monstrorum,"
the Higelac of our poem. See H. L. D. Ward, "Catalogue of Romances in
the British Museum," vol. ii. 1893, pp. 6 ff.

[59] According to the poem, the line of succession was: Scyld, Beowulf
(not our hero), Healfdene, Heorogar, Hrothgar.

[60] "Beowulf," 1876, T. Arnold's transla