Þe comoun peplis language

The Editors: Marcin Krygier, Ph.D. in 1993, D. Litt. in 1997; Fulbright fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1995 to 1996; author or co-author of three books on Old and Middle English; head of the Department of the History of English at the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.Liliana Sikorska, Ph.D. in 1994, D. Litt. in 1996; visiting scholar at the University of Florida, Brown University and the University of California, Los Angeles; visiting professor at the American University, Washington, DC; author or co-author of seven books on medieval English and Irish literature; head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics and acting head of the American Literature Department at the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.

• Contents: Ronald Kim: On the prehistory of Old English dyde – Vibeke Jensen: OE long /a:/ words in some fourteenth and fifteenth century Yorkshire texts – Ewa Ciszek: Some aspects of word-formation in Henryson’s Fables – Matti Kilpiö: Causative habban in Old English – Janusz Malak: Preposition stranding in Old English – Justyna Rogos: Transcribing and editing graphetic detail in the manuscripts of Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale – Rafał Borysławski: The riddle of poetry: Literary riddles and modern hermeneutics – Barbara Kowalik: The motif of journey in Cynewulf’s Fates of the apostles – Rory McTurk: External prolepsis in Beowulf – Klára Petříková: «Alle we beoth in the worldes wode weater». Water imagery in Ancrene wisse – Piotr Spyra: Clean but impatient: Pearl-poet’s Jonah in the face of the Lord.