text, translation, and commentary by J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by Joan Turville-Petre.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1981.
x, 85 pages ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages ix-x) and index.
"The Old English Exodus is based on full notes for a series of lectures delivered to a special class in Oxford in the 1930s and 1940s; the notes were retouched in the following decade. It was never intended to be an edition, although the lecturer scrupulously drew up and edited text as basis of his commentary. It is an interpretation of the poem, designed to reconstruct the original (as far as that is possible), and to place it in the context of Old English poetry"--Publisher's description