Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
by Christopher Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien
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- Humphrey Milford for the British Academy, 1936
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The first edition of Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary by Christopher Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien was published in Oxford by Humphrey Milford for the British Academy in 1936.
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