Old English Tradition – Essays in Honor of J. R. Hall

Lindy Brady is an assistant professor in the School of History at University College Dublin. She is the author of Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England.

• Introduction - by †Fred C. Robinson, Yale UniversityJ. R. Hall: A Bibliography - by Joseph B. Trahern, Jr., University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleI. Old English PoeticsTo Commemorate Friendship: The Life and Times of Old English Wine - by Roberta Frank, Yale UniversityDeath the Grim Hunter - by Jane Roberts, King’s College LondonThe Wife’s Lament and the Poetics of Affect - by Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, University of California–BerkeleyProgress in Old English Metrics - by Thomas M. Cable, University of Texas at AustinII. Anglo-Saxon ChristianityFigures of Enoch in Bodleian Library MS Junius 11 - by A. N. Doane, University of Wisconsin–MadisonChrist III and “Apparebit repentina dies magna Domini” - by Frederick M. Biggs, University of ConnecticutThe Long Shadow of Alcuin: Cambridge, Pembroke College 25 - by Paul E. Szarmach, EmeritusThe Eucharistic Dance of the Angels: I Cnut, iv, 1–2 - by Thomas D. Hill, Cornell UniversityAn Edition of Two Old English Homilies: “The Capital Sins” (HomM 2) and “Good Friday” (HomM 10) - by R. D. Fulk, Indiana UniversityIII. BeowulfVerbal Confusion Chiefly in Beowulf - by † E. G. Stanley, University of OxfordIronic Use of Laf and Three Swords of Doomed Inheritance in Beowulf - by Lindy Brady, University of MississippiBeowulf 3074–75: Problems of Interpretation - by Howell Chickering, Amherst CollegeIV. CodicologyMS CUL Kk 3.18 and the Tremulous Hand of Worcester - by David F. Johnson, Florida State UniversityA New Light on the Vercelli Book: Textual Science and Manuscript Recovery - by Gregory Heyworth, University of RochesterV. Early Anglo-Saxon StudiesThe Enlightened Innocence of Franciscus Junius Encounters The Meters of Boethius - by Daniel Donoghue, Harvard UniversityLaurence Nowell and the Old English Bede - by Carl T. Berkhout, University of ArizonaBenjamin Thorpe’s Influence on Joseph Bosworth’s Editions of the Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Orosius, and the Gospels - by Dabney A. Bankert, James Madison UniversityWho Wrote the Non-Racist Essay “The Anglo-Saxon Race”? Longfellow and Nineteenth-Century American Anglo-Saxonism - by John D. Niles, University of Wisconsin-MadisonBibliography