ABSTRACT
The present essay will furnish proof that the assumption of material contradictions in Beowulf has been arrived at for the most part, perhaps always, through false interpretation of the relevant passages or through misunderstanding of the stylistic properties of the poetry. Even after the writings of Hornburg (1877) and Rönning (1883) a task such as ours does not seem pointless, since along with several correct observations these treatises contain also much that is false, so that noticeable success has been denied them.
