Verbal Encounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank

314 Pages·2005·13.514 MB·English

by  Antonina Harbus, Russell Poole

Verbal Encounters:
Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies
for Roberta Frank
Roberta Frank. Photographby Alexander C. Murra
Verbal Encounters
Anglo-Saxon and
Old Norse Studies
for Roberta Frank
Edited by
Antonina Harbus and Russell Poole
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Verbal encounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse studies for Roberta
Frank / edited by Antonina Harbus and Russell Poole.
(Toronto Old English series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-802,0-8011-1
i. English philosophy - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism.
z. Old Norse poetry - History and criticism. I. Frank, Roberta II. Harbus, A.
(Antonina) III. Poole, Russell Gilbert
PRI76.V47 2,005 42,9 C2.OO4-9O4O4X-I
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing
program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing
activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry
Development Program (BPIDP).
CONTENTS
PREFACE vii
ABBREVIATIONS ix
NOTES ON EDITIONS xi
Introduction i
Roberta Frank: Bibliography, lyjo-zooi <j
Part I — On Words
i. Early Medieval Chaos 15
Christopher A. Jones
z. Composing and Joining: How the Anglo-Saxons 39
Talked about Compounding
Don Chapman
3. Cennan, 'to cause to be born'/ 'to cause to know': 55
Incarnation as Revelation in Old English Literature
Pauline Head
4. Pride, Courage, and Anger: The Polysemousness 77
of Old English Mod
Soon-Ai Low
Part II — On Anglo-Latin and Old English Prose
<j. Desipere in loco: Style, Memory, and the Teachable Moment 91
Carin Ruff
6. Courtroom Drama and the Homiletic Monologues of 105
The Vercelli Book
Dorothy Haines
Part III — On Old English Poetry
7. 'Him J)a£s grim lean becom': The Theme of Infertility 1x7
in Genesis A
Karin Olsen
8. Odd Characters: Runes in Old English Poetry 145
Robert DiNapoli
9. The Education of Beowulf and the Affair of the Leisure Class 163
Haruko Momma
10. Articulate Contact in Juliana 183
Antonina Harbus
Part IV — On Old Norse Literature
n. The Refracted Beam: Einarr Skulason's Liturgical Theology 203
Martin Chase
12. Beardless Wonders: 'Gaman vas Syxu (The Sex Was Great) 223
Oren Falk
13. Prophetic Dreams and Visions in the Sagas of the Early 247
Icelandic Saints
Bernadine McCreesh
14. Claiming Kin Skaldic-Style 269
Russell Poole
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 285
INDEX 287
PREFACE
We are grateful to all those who have helped bring this volume to fruition. In
particular our thanks go to our good-natured and productive contributors; to
Grace Desa, Ruth Harvey, and Walter Goffart for advice and information; to
Alexander C. Murray for photographing our honorand and providing technical
advice; to Debbie Rayner and Andrew Gillett for their support and practical
assistance throughout the genesis and development of this book; and to
Roberta herself for kind help in so many ways.
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