With eye and hand ye fend the head, Courage and skill stand in the stead Of panzer, helm and shield In Hild's bloody field.
"A Maid at King Alfred’s Court"
Lucy Foster Madison
This Bible I saw for the first time; but panzer is decidedly wrong in saying that the types resemble the larger ones in Mentelin's Valerius Maximus, Virgil and Terence: they may be nearly as tall, but are not so broad and large.
"A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two"
Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Again, both panzer and Lawrence suggest that the Beowa who gave his name to the ham may have been, not the hero, but "an ordinary mortal called after him" ...
"Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn"
R. W. Chambers