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 Ones Mind in The Wanderer 117
Susan Irvine
7 Wulfstans 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 19562004 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
Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchelloffers readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English.
JOHN WALMSLEY, Professor emeritus ofEnglische Sprache und Literatur und ihre Didaktik at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, read English Language and Literature at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and General Linguistics and Education at Edinburgh and Durham Universities respectively. He held teaching posts at Hamburg University and St. Mary's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, before being appointed to his chair at Bielefeld. From 1993 to 1994 he was Visiting Fellow at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (RCEAL) Cambridge, England. His publications cover topics in linguistics, applied linguistics and foreign-language teaching, and the history of linguistics. Current interests include the role of linguistics in education, linguistic terminology and its history, and late medieval English grammar.
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