A reproduction of the painting of a coiled dragon originally captioned "hringboga heorte gefysed," with enhanced color and without caption, on the front of the dust jacket of Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell, by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien. A note at the end of C. Tolkien's preface (xiv) explains the origin of this and the other images used for this book, whose contents are described more fully in the record for J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell.
BAM (1st U.S. ed.).