Here is the scanned version, in .pdf format, of my MA (Qualifying) thesis which I wrote at Flinders University under the supervision of Professor Ralph W. V. Elliott.
Be warned! the .pdf files are fairly large and the thesis was scanned from a carbon copy which means the text is a bit on the fuzzy side.

Click on the section you would like to read in the list below:

• Title page, Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, Contents [262k]
• Chapter 1: Introduction [1.7M]
• Chapter 2: Esgaroth [3.2M]
• Chapter 3: Beorn and mythology [2.0M]
• Chapter 4: Beorn and archaeology [7.0M]
• Chapter 5: Beowulf, the Voluspa and the Gylfaginning [2.5M]
• Bibliography [1.2M]

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There is a paper copy of my thesis in the Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide:

Keig, Alan Richard Some Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian analogues in Tolkien's 'The Hobbit'. Thesis (M.A.) - Flinders University, 1971. Call Number: BSL Special collections University 823 T64hZ.K

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