cxc + 497 pp. Identified as the 4th edition of F. Klaeber's Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, whose last-revised version of the 3rd edition appeared in 1950. Includes a very full introduction (xxiii-cxc), commentary on Beowulf, text of The Fight at Finnsburg with introduction to and commentary on that poem, glossary, and Works Cited. Damico's Foreword (vii-ix) concisely describes the history of Klaeber's great edition and particularly the conditions in which its 1936, 1941, and 1950 iterations were produced. This re-editing by Fulk, Bjork, and Niles is often informally known as "Klaeber 4." A corrected reprint was issued in 2009.

The Beowulf text begins:

Hwæt, wē Gār-Dena     in ġeārdagum,
þēodcyninga     þrym ġefrūnon,
hū ðā æþelingas     ellen fremedon.

Oft Scyld Scēfing     sceaþena þrēatum,
monegum mǣġþum     meodosetla oftēah,
eġsode eorl[as],     syððan ǣrest wearð
fēasceaft funden.     Hē þæs frōfre ġebād:
wēox under wolcnum,     weorðmyndum þāh,
oð þæt him ǣġhwylċ     þ̣ạ̄ṛạ ymbsittendra
ofer hronrāde     hȳran scolde,
gomban ġyldan.     Þæt wæs gōd cyning. (3)

And ends:

Þā ymbe hlǣw riodan     hildedīore,
æþelinga bearn,     ealra twelf(e),
woldon (care) cwīðan     (ond c)yning mǣnan,
wordġyd wrecan,     ond ymb w(er) sprecan;
eahtodan eorlscipe     ond his ellenweorc
duguðum dēmdon—     swā hit ġedē(fe) bið
þæt mon his winedryhten     wordum herġe,
ferhðum frēoġe,     þonne hē forð scile
of l(ī)ċhaman     (lǣ)ded weorðan.
Swā begnornodon     Ġēata lēode
hlāfordes (hry)re,     heorðġenēatas;
cwǣdon þæt hē wǣre     wyruldcyning[a]
manna mildust     ond mon(ðw)ǣrust,
lēodum līðost     ond lofġeornost. (108-9)

BAM.