Instead of trying to make major changes I give in this preface a brief ac- count of the directions in which I think the papers should now be changed — it is a kind of review, a Selbstanzeige — and in the light of which the papers (which I refer to by number, assigned to them in the table of contents and in the book itself) are to be read. [...] Some of the 8 Part I. Surveys of OE Studies The rational ideal of good government in ancient times may, strange as it seems to us in an age incredulous of virtue, in the case of Alfred at least not have been far from the truth in essentials, though false in not a few of the circum- stances used to show the ideal in action. [...] The events of the 878 annal in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle augmented by reference to Asser's Life of King Alfred (not yet freed from the accretions of The Annals ofStNeots) and to the chroniclers, especially William of Malmesbury, under- lie much of the literary exploitation of Alfred. [...] The history of the scholarly study of the laws is in part a history of the struggle to recover the significance of words; it is also a history of the struggle to understand the nature of the institutions. [...] The earliest study of the vocabulary reflects the interests of early Anglo-Saxonists, in theology, in law, in the documentation of pre-Con- quest affairs, public and private, secular and ecclesiastical, and these interests are consonant with the interests manifested in the Anglo-Saxon records them- selves.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 12
- Abbreviations 16
- I. SURVEYS OF OLD ENGLISH STUDIES, THEIR HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 22
- 1. 'The Scholarly Recovery of the Significance of Anglo-Saxon Records in Prose and Verse: A New Bibliography' 22
- 2. 'The Continental Contribution to the Study of Anglo-Saxon Writings up to and Including that of the Grimms' 68
- 3. 'Sharon Turner's First Published Reference to Beowulf' 94
- 4. 'The Bibliography of Old English: The Past' 95
- 5. 'Translation from Old English: "The Garbaging War-Hawk", or, The Literal Materials from Which the Reader Can Re-create the Poem' 102
- II. OLD ENGLISH TEXTS IN VERSE AND PROSE 134
- 6. 'The Oldest English Poetry Now Extant' 134
- 7. 'Beowulf' 158
- 8. 'The Narrative Art of Beowulf' 189
- 9. 'HæÞenra Hyht in Beowulf' 211
- 10. 'The Date of Beowulf: Some Doubts and No Conclusions' 228
- 11. 'Did Beowulf Commit Feaxfeng Against Grendel's Mother?' 251
- 12. 'Old English Poetic Diction and the Interpretation of The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and The Penitent's Prayer' 253
- 13. 'The Germanic "Heroic Lay" of Finnesburg' 300
- 14. 'Two Old English Poetic Phrases Insufficiently Understood for Literary Criticism: Þing gehegan and seonoÞ gehegan' 317
- 15. 'GeoweorÞa: "Once Held in High Esteem" ' 337
- 16. 'How the Elbing Deprives the Vistula of Its Name and Converts It to the Elbing's Own Use in "Vistula-Mouth" ' 355
- 17. 'The Judgement of the Damned, from Corpus Christi College Cambridge 201 and Other Manuscripts, and the Definition of Old English Verse' 371
- III. INSCRIPTIONS 403
- 18. 'The Ruthwell Cross Inscription: Some Linguistic and Literary Implications of Paul Meyvaert's Paper "An Apocalypse Panel on the Ruthwell Cross" ' 403
- 19. 'The Late Saxon Disc-Brooch from Sutton (Isle of Ely): Its Verse Inscription' 419
- IV. KING ALFRED 428
- 20. 'The Word Alfredian' 428
- 21. 'The Glorification of Alfred King of Wessex (from the publication of Sir John Spelman's Life, 1678 and 1709, to the publication of Reinhold Pauli's, 1851)' 429
- Index 461
- A 461
- B 462
- C 467
- D 468
- E 469
- F 469
- G 470
- H 471
- I 471
- J 471
- K 472
- L 472
- M 473
- N 475
- O 475
- P 475
- R 476
- S 477
- T 478
- U 479
- V 479
- W 479
- Y 480
- Z 480
