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Beowulf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4731 words) |
 | It suffered irreparable damage in the Cotton Library fire at the ominously-named Ashburnham House in 1731. |
| Icelandic scholar GrÃmur Jónsson Thorkelin made the first transcription of the manuscript in 1786 and published it in 1815, working under a historical research commission of the Danish government. |
| Since that time, the manuscript has suffered additional decay, and the Thorkelin transcripts remain a prized secondary source for Beowulf scholars. |
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