1. Introduction Part I - the Four Funerals 2. The first funeral: Scyld
Scefing's Ship of Death 3. The second funeral: the cremation of Hildeburg's
kin 4. The third funeral: the Last Survivor's Lament 5. The fourth funeral:
Beowulf's complex obsequies 6. Classicising the past Part II - The Funerals
and the Structure of the Poem 7. Rings and fitts 8. The funerals and
elliptical structures I: the inner funerals as frames 9. The funerals and
elliptical structures II: the outer structures 10. The funerals and
elliptical structures III: the funerals as centres 11. Three movements and
a coda: Beowulf's femininst middle Conclusions
