Runes and Roman Letters in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.

Intro -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 0. Introduction -- 0.1 Anglo-Saxons and writing: a brief introduction -- 0.2 Runic writing before the fifth century -- 0.3 The runic and roman writing systems -- 0.4 English runes before and after the conversion -- 0.5 Methodology -- 1. Runes in Old English Manuscripts: The Exeter Book Manuscript as a Case Study -- 1.1 Runes in the Exeter Book -- 1.1.1 Marginal runes -- 1.1.2 Runic abbreviations -- 1.1.3 Textual runes -- 1.2 Runes, riddles, and revelation -- 1.3 Conclusion -- 2. Reading and Writing in the Runic Riddles and The Husband's Message -- 2.1 Runes in the Exeter Book riddles -- 2.1.1 Speech and the material word: Riddle 24 -- 2.1.2 Talking about writing in Riddles 42 and 58 -- 2.1.3 Hidden in plain sight: re-reading Riddles 19 and 64 -- 2.2 The Husband's Message -- 2.2.1 The identity of the speaker -- 2.2.2 Interpreting the runes of The Husband's Message -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3. Cynewulf's Signatures and the Materiality of the Letter -- 3.1 Cynewulf's epilogues -- 3.1.1 Cynewulf's runic signatures -- 3.1.2 Problem runes and playful language -- 3.2 Names in manuscripts: scribal colophons and authorial signatures -- 3.3 Names in epigraphy -- 3.4 Writing the cross: visual signifiers in Elene -- 3.5 The purpose of Cynewulf's epilogues -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4. The Power of the Letter in Runic Charms and Solomon and Saturn I -- 4.1 Anglo-Saxon charms and the story of Imma -- 4.1.1 Letters and divine power -- 4.1.2 Runes in Old English charms -- 4.1.3 Imma meets Ælfric -- 4.1.4 Runic charms and the power of language -- 4.2 Solomon and Saturn I -- 4.3 Conclusion -- 5. Rune Lists and Alphabet Poems: Studying the Letter in Later Anglo-Saxon England -- 5.1 The Old English Rune Poem -- 5.2 Letter lists and Rune poems -- 5.2.1 The Abecedarium Nordmannicum.

5.2.2 Icelandic Rune Poem(s) -- 5.2.3 The Norwegian Rune Poem -- 5.2.4 The Rune poems together -- 5.3 Alphabet psalms -- 5.4 Visual ambiguities in the Old English Rune Poem -- 5.5 Conclusion -- 6. Conclusion -- 6.1 Medieval writing and the internet -- Bibliography -- Index.

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