TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Abbreviations 284 



The Possible Begetter of the Old English Beowulf 

 AND Widsith. 



I. Northumbria in the Seventh Century 285 



II. Chronology of Aldfrith's Life 287 



III. Aldfrith's Qualifications as a Patron of Literature. . 296 



IV. The Composition of Beoivulf 312 



V. Aldfrith and Beozviilf 316 



VI. The East Riding and Bcozvulf 323 



VII. Aldhelm and Beowulf 335 



VIII. Bcozvulf and the Homeric Poems 339 



IX. The Composer of Beozvulf 343 



X. The Composer of Widsith 345 



