Inside Old English

Acknowledgements.

Abbreviations.

Foreword.

Bruce Mitchell. (Fred C. Robinson).

Introduction. (John Walmsley).

1 Eight Notes on the Beowulf Text. (Alfred Bammesberger).

2 A Point Well-Taken: Manuscript Punctuation and Old English Poems. (Daniel Donoghue).

3 The Incomparable Wryness of Old English Poetry. (Roberta Frank).

4 Straining Words and Striving Voices: Polysemy and Ambiguity and the Importance of Context in the Disclosure of Meaning. (Antonette diPaolo Healey).

5 "Eala, Geferan and Gode Wyrhtan": On Interjections in Old English. (Risto Hiltunen).

6 Speaking One's Mind in The Wanderer. (Susan Irvine).

7 Wulfstan's Scandinavian Loanword Usage: An aspect of the linguistic situation in the late Old English Danelaw. (Tadao Kubouchi).

8 An Aspect of Old English Poetic Diction: The Postpositioning of Prepositions. (Michael Lapidge).

9 Issues for Editors of Anglo-Saxon Poetry in Manuscript Form. (Bernard J. Muir).

10 Language and style in two anonymous Old English Easter homilies. (Hiroshi Ogawa).

11 Latin influence on an Old English idiom: 'to wit'. (Matti Rissanen).

12 Germanic *Uargaz (O.E. Wearh) and the Finnish evidence. (Fred C. Robinson).

13 How the Leopard Got its Spots. English Grammatical.

Categories, Latin terms. (John Walmsley).

A Bibliography of Writings by Bruce Mitchell 1956-2004.

Select Bibliography.

List of Editions used.

Index of Names.

Index of Old English Words and Phrases.

Index of Subjects.