301 pp. 3rd ed. "fully revised" by Bolton (title page) from Wrenn's edition of the poem, first published 1953 and revised 1958. From Bolton's Preface to this edition: "about a third of the Introduction is new … and it was decided to offer a new bibliography, stressing recent books, … to restore the MS. readings of the contracted forms that Wrenn printed 'decontracted' … and to compress the Commentary somewhat, while removing it from the back of the book to a place at the bottom of the text page" (6). The text of Beowulf is preceded by a substantial introduction (9-88) and select bibliography (89-92), and is followed by The Finnesburg Fragment (213-15) and glossaries (216-301).

The text of Beowulf begins:

Hwæt wē Gār-Dena     in geār-dagum
þēod-cyninga     þrym gefrūnon,
hū ðā æþelingas     ellen fremedon.

Oft Scyld Scēfing     sceaþena þrēatum,
monegum mǣgþum     meodo-setla oftēah;
egsode Eorl[e],     syððan ǣrest wearð
fēasceaft funden;     hē þæs frōfre gebād:
wēox under wolcnum,     weorð-myndum þāh,
oðþæt him ǣghwylc     þāra ymb-sittendra
ofer hron-rāde     hȳran scolde,
gomban gyldan:     þæt wæs gōd cyning! (95-96)

And ends:

Þā ymbe hlǣw riodan     hilde-dēore,
æþelinga bearn,     ealra twelfe,
woldon ceare cwīðan,     kyning mǣnan,
word-gyd wrecan     ond ymb wer sprecan:
eahtodan eorlscipe     ond his ellen-weorc;
duguðum dēmdon,     swā hit gedēfe bið
þæt mon his wine-dryhten     wordum herge,
ferhðum frēoge,     þonne hē forð scile
of līc-haman     lǣded weorðan.
Swā begnornodon     Gēata lēode
hlāfordes hryre,     heorð-genēatas;
cwǣdon þæt hē wǣre     wyruld-cyninga,
manna mildust     ond mon-ðwǣrust,
lēodum līðost     ond lof-geornost. (212)

BAM.