Inside Old English : Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell (Paperback)

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgements xiii

List of Abbreviations xiv

Foreword xvi

Bruce Mitchell xviii

Fred C. Robinson

Introduction 1
John Walmsley

1 Eight Notes on the Beowulf Text 19
Alfred Bammesberger

2 A Point Well Taken: Manuscript Punctuation and Old English Poems 38
Daniel Donoghue

3 The Incomparable Wryness of Old English Poetry 59
Roberta Frank

4 Straining Words and Striving Voices: Polysemy and Ambiguity and the Importance of Context in the Disclosure of Meaning 74
Antonette diPaolo Healey

5 “Eala, geferan and gode wyrhtan”: On Interjections in Old English 91
Risto Hiltunen

6 Speaking One’s Mind in The Wanderer 117
Susan Irvine

7 Wulfstan’s Scandinavian Loanword Usage: An Aspect of the Linguistic Situation in the Late Old English Danelaw 134
Tadao Kubouchi

8 An Aspect of Old English Poetic Diction: The Postpositioning of Prepositions 153
Michael Lapidge

9 Issues for Editors of Anglo-Saxon Poetry in Manuscript Form 181
Bernard J. Muir

10 Language and Style in Two Anonymous Old English Easter Homilies 203
Hiroshi Ogawa

11 Latin Influence on an Old English Idiom: “To Wit” 222
Matti Rissanen

12 Germanic *uargaz (OE wearh) and the Finnish Evidence 242
Fred C. Robinson

13 How the Leopard Got His Spots: English Grammatical Categories, Latin Terms 248
John 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