Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiii
List of Abbreviations xiv
Foreword xvi
Bruce Mitchell xviii
Fred C. Robinson
Introduction 1John Walmsley
1 Eight Notes on the Beowulf Text 19Alfred Bammesberger
2 A Point Well Taken: Manuscript Punctuation and Old English Poems 38Daniel Donoghue
3 The Incomparable Wryness of Old English Poetry 59Roberta Frank
4 Straining Words and Striving Voices: Polysemy and Ambiguity and the Importance of Context in the Disclosure of Meaning 74Antonette diPaolo Healey
5 “Eala, geferan and gode wyrhtan”: On Interjections in Old English 91Risto Hiltunen
6 Speaking One’s Mind in The Wanderer 117Susan Irvine
7 Wulfstan’s Scandinavian Loanword Usage: An Aspect of the Linguistic Situation in the Late Old English Danelaw 134Tadao Kubouchi
8 An Aspect of Old English Poetic Diction: The Postpositioning of Prepositions 153Michael Lapidge
9 Issues for Editors of Anglo-Saxon Poetry in Manuscript Form 181Bernard J. Muir
10 Language and Style in Two Anonymous Old English Easter Homilies 203Hiroshi Ogawa
11 Latin Influence on an Old English Idiom: “To Wit” 222Matti Rissanen
12 Germanic *uargaz (OE wearh) and the Finnish Evidence 242Fred C. Robinson
13 How the Leopard Got His Spots: English Grammatical Categories, Latin Terms 248John Walmsley
A Bibliography of Writings by Bruce Mitchell 1956–2004 268
Select Bibliography 279
List of Editions Used 282
Index of Names 287
Index of Old English Words and Phrases 290
Index of Subjects 291