Book is x + 758 pp. A collection of out-of-copyright texts by various translators: Beowulf, The Saga of the Volsungs, The Nibelungenlied, The Battle of Magh Rath, The Song of Roland, and The Song of My Cid. No compiling editor is credited. The texts are preceded by Moore's preface. Small changes to punctuation are made in Gummere's Beowulf.

The Beowulf text begins:

Lo! praise of the prowess of people-kings
of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!
Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,
from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
awing the earls. Since erst he lay
friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him:
for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve,
till before him the folk, both far and near,
who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate,
gave him gifts: a good king he! (3)

And ends:

Then about that barrow the battle-keen rode,
atheling-born, a band of twelve,
lament to make, to mourn their king,
chant their dirge, and their chieftain honor.
They praised his earlship, his acts of prowess
worthily witnessed: and well it is
that men their master-friend mightily laud,
heartily love, when hence he goes
from life in the body forlorn away.

Thus made their mourning the men of Geatland,
for their hero's passing his hearth-companions:
quoth that of all the kings of earth,
of men he was mildest and most beloved,
to his kin the kindest, keenest for praise. (83)

BAM.