cxc + 471 pp. Klaeber published his edition as "Fr. Klaeber" (not determining between the English form of his name, Frederick, and his birth name, Friedrich). Old English text preceded by very full Introduction and followed by notes, text of The Fight at Finnsburg, notes to the latter, appendices, glossaries for both poems, and Supplements containing additions to notes, bibliography, and glossary (the 1941 First Supplement and a new Second Supplement). This 3rd edition with its two Supplements was the final form in which Klaeber issued his text and saw many reprints over the following decades.
The Beowulf text begins:
HWÆT, WĒ GĀR-DEna in gēardagum,
þēodcyninga þrym gefrūnon,
hū ðā æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scēfing sceaþena þrēatum,
monegum mǣgþum meodosetla oftēah,
egsode eorl[as], syððan ǣrest wearð
fēasceaft funden; hē þæs frōfre gebād,
wēox under wolcnum weorðmyndum þāh,
oð þæt him ǣghwylc ymbsittendra
ofer hronrāde hȳran scolde,
gomban gyldan; þæt wæs gōd cyning! (1)
And ends:
Þā ymbe hlǣw riodan hildedēore,
æþelinga bearn, ealra twelfe,
woldon (care) cwīðan, [ond] kyning mǣnan,
wordgyd wrecan, ond ymb w(er) sprecan;
eahtodan eorlscipe ond his ellenweorc
duguðum dēmdon,— swā hit gedē(fe) bið,
þæt mon his winedryhten wordum herge,
ferhðum frēoge, þonne hē forð scile
of līchaman (lǣded) weorðan.
Swā begnornodon Gēata lēode
hlāfordes (hry)re, heorðgenēatas;
cwǣdon þæt hē wǣre wyruldcyning[a]
manna mildust ond mon(ðw)ǣrust,
lēodum līðost ond lofgeornost. (119-20)
Fry construes the description "Edited, with Introduction, Bibliography, Notes, Glossary, and Appendices" as part of the book's title.
BAM.