Book is vi + 370 pp. This is the first volume of a 4-volume work published 1857-64, meant to present editions of all Old English poems: vol. 1, containing texts, 1857; vol. 2, containing the remaining texts, 1858; vol. 3, the first part of the glossary, 1861; and vol. 4, completing the glossary, 1864. Grein's edition of Beowulf is in vol. 1, pp. 255-341. No introductory material or comment is provided other than brief notes on manuscripts and prior editions (359-68, Beowulf at 356-67). The volume concludes with "Nachträgliche Verbesserungen" ("later improvements," 368-69, with those for Beowulf on 369) and errata (370).

Grein's Beowulf text begins:

Hwät! ve Gâr-dena in geârdagum
þeódcyninga þrym gefrunon,
hû þâ äᵭelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scêfing sceaᵭena þreátum
monegum mægᵭum meodosetla ofteáh,
egsode eorl, syᵭᵭan ærest vearᵭ
feásceaft funden; he þäs frôfre gebâd,
veóx under volcnum, veorᵭmyndum þâh,
ôᵭ þät him æghvylc þâra ymbsittendra
ofer hronrâde hŷran scolde,
gomban gyldan: þät väs gôd cyning! (255; use of d with tilde for ð as in original)

And ends:

̃Pâ ymbe hlæv ridan hildedeóre
äᵭelinga scear ealra tvelfa,
voldon [ceare] cvîᵭan, cyning mænan,
vordgyd vrecan and ymb [ver] sprecan,
eahtodon eorlscipe and his ellenveorc
duguᵭum dêmdon, svâ hit gedêfe biᵭ,
þät mon his vinedryhten vordum hêrge,
ferhᵭum freóge, þonne he forᵭ scyle
of lîchaman [læne] veorᵭan.
Svâ begnornodon Geáta leóde
hlâfordes [hry]re, heorᵭgeneátas,
cvædon þät he være voroldcyninga
manna mildust and monþværust,
leódum lîᵭost and lof-geornost. (341; use of d with tilde for ð , and P with tilde for Þ, as in original)

BAM.