OLD MANUSCRIPT OF BEOWULF
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MANY ANCIENT TEXTS MAY
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LONDON. January 24
Unread for 1000 years, an eighth century manuscript of Beowulf, ore of the most, precious of old Ensl:?n relics, has yielded it? set ret.- to u:-tra-violet ray photography. says the •'News-Chronicle.'' Dr. A. H. Smith, of Ur.ivcrsi'.y College, London, using a camera ■ '-
his own design, has proved thr/. Beowulf's funeral pyre was bu:l: beside the sea. He found the word "hoe," meaning a promontory, suc:\ as in Plymouth Hoe. Dr. Smith is convinced that so much is revealed that it will necessitate new transcriptions of ah the ancient texts from King Alfred'..translation of Beothius to the "Canterbury Tales."
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22310, 26 January 1938, Page 11
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