ABSTRACT

Besides bringing Beow, Scyld and Sceaf into the main text, pp. 341-3, and returning to woodpeckers, p. 639, Grimm found a little more to say on Grendel in the second edition of his Deutsche Mythologie, Göttingen 1844. He inserted a reference to Kemble’s Grendles mere (see Introduction, p. 42) into the first passage translated in item 32 above, and found further parallels in Gervase of Tilbury and Hugo von Langenstein (p. 222). He also added an extra paragraph on p. 464, as follows.