AFTER 1000 YEARS
OLD MANUSCRIPT READ.
ULTRA-VIOLET PHOTOGRAPHY.
VALUABLE LITERARY FIND.
(United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, January 24.
Unread for 1000 years ail eighth century manuscript, “Beowulf,” the most precious of the old English relics, yielded its secrets to ultra-violet ray photography, says “The NewsChronicle.”
Dr. A. H. Smith, of University College, using a camera of his own design proved that Beowulf’s funeral pvre was built beside the sea. He found a word “hoe,” meaning “a promontory” such as Plymouth Hoc.
Dr. Smith is convinced that so much is revealed that it will necessitate new transscriptions of all the ancient texts, from King Alfred’s translation of “Beothius” to “The Canterbury Tales.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 89, 25 January 1938, Page 5
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