Kenneth Brooks
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 1998 (reprint of 1961 edition).
cloth, dj., 237 pp. ISBN: 0198114222
Book Number 19828
Despite its obvious stylistic defects, Andreas may justly be reckoned one of the most interesting of Old English poems, especially on account of its vigorous narrative and the variety of its vocabulary. This edition was the first to make use of the Latin versions of the legend published in 1930 by Blatt, and it replaces the out-dated edition published in 1906 by Krapp. Cynewulf's short poem The Fates of the Apostles, which was once thought to be the conclusion of Andreas, is also included. The numerous difficulties of interpretation and syntax are fully discussed in the textual commentary, and a glossary has been added. Brooks' Introduction takes account of advances in scholarship since Krapp's edition, and contains sections on the sources of the poems, the language and metre of the texts, and the question of Beowulfian influence on Andreas