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Excerpt from The Anglo-Saxon Poems of Beowulf, the Scôp or Gleeman's Tale, and the Fight at Finnesburg: With a Literal Translation, Notes, Glossary, Etc
This hypothesis may, perhaps, serve to account for some at least of the deviations from the historic or, as our cons tinental brethren would prefer to regard them, mythic tra ditions contained in the early annals of England and the North, many of which may, no doubt, be placed to the account of the paraphrast. Let those to whom this view may appear rash, consult any anglo-saxon version of a Latin author, or even a metrical paraphrase of a prose writer inhis own tongue d, and, on seeing its numerous. Misconceptions of the original, he will, unless I greatly err, considerably qualify, if not change, his Opinion. From the allusions to Christianity contained in the poem, I do not hesitate to regard it as a Christian paraphrase Of a heathen Saga, and those allusions as interpolations of the paraphrast, whom I conceive to have been a native of England Of Scandinavian parentage.
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