Excerpt from An Analysis of the Interpretations of the Finnsburg Documents<br><br>Such a résumé ought to be indispensable for a thoroughly critical study of the Finnsburg documents. It will contain inevitably much that will be found useless when a satisfactory solution is arrived at, but until that time it is unscientific and unsafe to pass by without due consideration any sincere attempt to throw light upon this very obscure portion of our early litera ture.<br><br>In his recently published edition of Widsith, Mr. Chambers says: Modern scholarship has been rather too ready to dis miss the conclusions Of earlier students without sufficiently examining the facts from which those conclusions were drawn. Each of these earlier critics based his work upon a careful study of his predecessors' investigations. It is only by such gradual evolution of Opinion, he concludes, that theories of permanent value can be gained.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.