Unlocking the wordhord : Anglo-Saxon studies in memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr. /

The Anglo-Saxons placed a great deal of importance on wisdom and learning, something Beowulf makes dramatically clear when he uses his 'wordhord' to command respect and admiration from his friends and foes alike. Modern day scholars no longer have recourse to the living language and cultur...

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Other Authors / Creators:O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine, 1948-
Irving, Edward Burroughs, 1923-
Amodio, Mark.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Mark C. Amodio and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
  • Falling into place : dislocation in the Junius Book / Nicholas Howe
  • Aelfric revises : the lives of Martin and the idea of the author / Paul E. Szarmach
  • 'Beowulf' and scribal performance / A.N. Doane
  • How genres leak in traditional verse / John Miles Foley
  • A reading of Brunanburh / Donald Scragg
  • 'lc' and 'We' in eleventh-century Old English liturgical verse / Sarah Larratt Keefer
  • Cynewulf and the Passio S. Iulianae / Michael Lapidge
  • King Cnut's grant of Sandwich to Christ Church, Canterbury : a new reading of a damaged annal in two copies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Timothy Graham
  • The fables of the Bayeux Tapestry : an Anglo-Saxon perspective / Gail Joy Berlin
  • N.F.S. Grundtvig's 1840 edition of the Old English Phoenix : a vision of a vision of paradise / Robert E. Bjork
  • Hrothgar's 'admirable courage' / Jane Roberts
  • Questions of fairness : fair, not fair and foul / Antonette diPaolo Healey
  • Bravery and the vocabulary of bravery in Beowulf and the Battle of Maldon / Janet Bately
  • Sex in the Dictionary of Old English / Roberta Frank.