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Title: High in Jargon, Low in Merit
Review: You should not read this book if you are interested in studying or understanding Beowulf. This book is ahistorical, poorly informed about Beowulf scholarship, and wildly inaccurate in many of its claims. As the other reviewer says, stick to Orchard et al. This book is frequently acknowledged but rarely cited in a positive light or engaged with in any meaningful way. That is because this book is not productive or useful, and because scholars are too polite. But such politeness permits bad scholarship to flourish and creates the unfortunate impression that there might be something good in such work. There is not. We must be more critical in our judgment. For learned yet accessible studies of Beowulf, read Orchard, Irving, Chambers, Whitelock, Sisam, and/or Clark.
