ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT.
IMPORTANT REVELATIONS. Received January 25, 12.45 p.m. 'LONDON, Jan. 24. Unread for 1000 years, the Bth-cen-tury manuscript of Beowulf, the most precious of old English relics, has yielded its secrets to ultra-violet ray photography, says tho News-Chronicle. Dr A. H. Smith, University College, using a camera of his own design, has proved that Beowulf’s funeral pyre was built beside the sea. He found that tlie word “hoe” is promontory, such as Plymouth Hoe. Dr Smith is convinced that so much is revealed that it will necessitate new transcriptions of all the ancient texts from King Alfred’s translation of Beothius to the Canterbury Tafts. Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poeiTi, probably dating from tlie 7th or Bth centurv. It tells mainly of the three great adventures of Beowulf, his slaying first of tho monster Grcndel, then of Grondel’s mother, tho fen-dwelling monster, and last of tho dracron or firedrake, when ho himself was killed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 48, 25 January 1938, Page 8
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155ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 48, 25 January 1938, Page 8
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