From CANUTE The Great 1912 by Laurence Marcellus Larson

In the legendary age a famous dynasty known as the Shielding appears to have ruled over Danes and Jutes. the ; family took its name from a mythical ancestor, King Shield, whose coming to the Daneland is told in the opening lines of the Old English epic Beowulf.   (Etc.)

CANUTE THE GREAT   995 (circ)-1034 by L.M. Larson
New York and London : Putnam 1912, p. 3.

Selected Bibliographic (University of California)

[ Beowulf. English.] Title A translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem of Beowulf, with a copious glossary, preface and philological notes by John M. Kemble. Publisher London : W. Pickering, 1837. Description [8], lv, [1], 127, [180] p. Language English

[ Beowulf.] Title The Anglo-Saxon poems of Beowulf, the Travellers Song and the Battle of Finnesburh / ed. by John M. Kemble. Publisher London : William Pickering, 1835. Description 2 v. Added Entry Kemble, John Mitchell, 1807-1857.

[ Beowulf. Danish.] Title Bjowulfs drape. Et gothisk helte-digt fra forrige aar-tusinde, af angel-saxisk paa danske riim ved Nik. Fred. Sev. Grundtvig. Publisher Kj�benhavn : Trykt hos A. Seidelin, 1820. Description lxxiv, 325 p. 21 cm. Note "May properly be called nothing more than a paraphrase."--Tinker, The translations of Beowulf. 1903, p. 27. Added Entry Grundtvig, N. F. S. (Nicolai Frederik Severin), 1783-1872.

Uniform Title [ Beowulf.] Title De Danorum rebus gestis secul. III & IV. Po�ma danicum dialecto anglo-saxonica. Ex bibliotheca Cottoniana Musaei britannici edidit versione lat. et indicibus auxit Grim. Johnson Thorkelin. Publisher Havni�, typis T. E. Rangel, 1815. Description xx, 299 p. 24 cm. Note Anglo-Saxon and Latin in parallel columns. Added Entry Thorkelin, Gr�mur J�nsson, 1752-1829.