Beowulf: Eds. prin., Copenhagen, 1815; London, 1837

        The Icelandic scholar, Grimur Thorkelin, who had transcribed the entire poem in 1786 and 1787, published the first printed edition in 1815.  This was followed by John M. Kemble's London edition in 1837.  The Goucher Library's copy of Thorkelin's 1815 edition came to us in the James Wilson Bright Collection, the teaching editions of the famous Johns Hopkins philologist.  The Johns Hopkins University Library holds copies of several incomplete editions of Kemble's edition.