v + 137 pp. Reproduces, with new punctuation, the Old English text from Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson, eds., Beowulf: An Edition, with Relevant Shorter Texts (1998). The text of the poem is preceded by a lengthy introduction (1-30) explaining the rationale and principles of the punctuation system used, and is followed by a bibliography and a list of topics discussed in the introduction and notes.

Mitchell and Robinson had included in their 1998 edition an appendix more briefly outlining this punctuation system and giving a 114-line sample of text done according to it. The same 114 lines, as presented in Mitchell and Irvine's full version here, differ slightly in punctuation from that trial effort.

The text begins:

HWÆT!

WĒ GĀR-DEna     in geārdagum
þēodcyninga     þrym gefrūnon᛫
hū ðā æþelingas     ellen fremedon.
Oft Scyld Scēfing     sceaþena þrēatum
monegum mǣgþum     meodosetla oftēah᛫
egsode eorlas     syððan ǣrest wearð
fēasceaft funden     hē þæs frōfre gebād᛫
wēox under wolcnum᛫     weorðmyndum þāh
oð þæt him ǣghwylc     þāra ymbsittendra
ofer hronrāde     hȳran scolde,
gomban gyldan᛫     þæt wæs gōd cyning. (33)

And ends:

Þā ymbe hlǣw riodan     hildedēore
æþelinga bearn     ealra twelfe᛫
woldon care cwīðan     ond cyning mǣnan,
wordgyd wrecan     ond ymb wer sprecan᛫
eahtodan eorlscipe     ond his ellenweorc
duguðum dēmdon.     Swā hit gedēfe bið
þæt mon his winedryhten     wordum herge᛫
ferhðum frēoge     þonne hē forð scile
of līchaman     lǣded weorðan᛫
swā begnornodon     Gēata lēode
hlāfordes hryre,     heorðgenēatas:
cwǣdon þæt hē wǣre     wyruldcyninga
mannum mildust     ond monðwǣrust
lēodum līðost     ond lofgeornost. (128)

BAM.