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TRANSACTIONS OF 



THE CONNECTICUT ACAfDiEMY 



OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 



VOLUME 25] 



APRIL 1922 



[PAGES 281-346 



The Possible Begetter of the 

 Old English Beowulf and Widsiih 



BY 



ALBERT STANBURROUGH COOK 



Professor Emeritus of the English Language and Literature in 

 Yale University. 



NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT 



PUBLISHED BY THE 



CONNECTICUT ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 



AND TO BE OBTAINED ALSO FROM THE 



YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS 



