Inside Old English : essays in honour of Bruce Mitchell /

"Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell" gives readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English. It consists of a series of original essays written by prominent specialists in this field, "Inside Old English" enables readers to engage with the literar...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Other Authors: Mitchell, Bruce, 1920-2010, Walmsley, John, 1937-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / John Walmsley
  • Eight notes on the Beowulf text / Alfred Bammesberger
  • A point well taken: manuscript punctuation and Old English poems / Daniel Donoghue
  • The incomparable wryness of Old English poetry / Roberta Frank
  • Straining words and striving voices: polysemy and ambiguity and the importance of context in the disclosure of meaning / Antonette diPalalo Healey
  • Eala, geferan and gode wyrhtan: on interjections in Old English / Risto Hiltunen
  • Speaking one's mind in The wanderer / Susan Irvine
  • Wulfstan's Scandinavian loanword usage: an aspect of the linguistic situation in the late Old English danelaw / Tadao Kubouchi
  • An aspect of Old English poetic diction: the postpositioning of prepositions / Michael Lapidge
  • Issues for editors of Anglo-Saxon poetry in manuscript form / Bernard J. Muir
  • Language and style in two anonymous Old English Easter homilies / Hiroshi Ogawa
  • Latin influence on an Old English idiom: To wit / Matti Rissanen
  • Germanic *uargaz (OE wearh) and the Finnish evidence / Fred C. Robinson
  • How the leopard got its spots: English grammatical categories, Latin terms / John Walmsley
  • A bibliography of writings by Bruce Mitchell, 1956-2004.