Unlocking the Wordhord : Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (370 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Falling into Place: Dislocation in the Junius Book -- Ælfric Revises: The Lives of Martin and the Idea of the Author -- 'Beowulf' and Scribal Performance -- How Genres Leak in Traditional Verse -- A Reading of Brunanburh -- 'Ic' and 'We' in Eleventh-Century Old English Liturgical Verse -- Cynewulf and the Passio S. lulianae -- King Cnut's Grant of Sandwich to Christ Church, Canterbury: A New Reading of a Damaged Annal in Two Copies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- The Fables of the Bayeux Tapestry: An Anglo-Saxon Perspective -- N.F.S. Grundtvig's 1840 Edition of the Old English Phoenix: A Vision of a Vision of Paradise -- Hrothgar's 'admirable courage' -- Questions of Fairness: Fair, Not Fair, and Foul -- Bravery and the Vocabulary of Bravery in Beowulf and the Battle of Maldon -- Sex in the Dictionary of Old English -- A Select Bibliography of the Writings of Edward B. Irving, Jr -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Offering a fresh reading of some popular pieces and inviting attention to some less-familiar texts, these previously unpublished essays illustrate the latest state of particular techniques for literary / critical analysis, textual recovery, and lexical studies.
9781442682931
English philology-Old English, ca. 450-1100. English literature-Old English, ca. 450-1100-History and criticism. English literature-Old English, ca. 450-1100-Criticism, Textual.