[1] Neidorf is the editor of The Dating of 'Beowulf': A Reassessment (2014), which was awarded the Outstanding Academic Title by Choice in 2015, and co-editor (with Tom Shippey and Rafael J. Pascual) of Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R. D. Fulk (2016).
[8] In addition to Beowulf, Neidorf has published extensively on other major Old English poems, including Widsith,[9][10][11] Maxims,[12][13] the Finnesburg Fragment,[14][15] and The Dream of the Rood.
He explicates its text in relation to Old Norse and Middle High German analogues,[23][24][25][26] medieval traditions concerning the monstrous progeny of Cain,[27] and early English history and culture.
In the field of onomastics, Neidorf contends that names in Beowulf derive from earlier oral tradition and were not invented by the poet to reflect meaningfully on their bearers.
[37] In his methodological writing, Neidorf draws on the epistemology of Karl Popper and argues for the importance of falsifiability and probabilism in literary studies.
In his review on the back cover, Francis Leneghan of the University of Oxford described the collaborative volume as "the perfect book for the first-time reader of Beowulf and essential reading for all scholars.