These contributions to the study of medieval literature and civilization in Britain and Scandinavia are published as a memorial to Norman Garmonsway, Chair of English at King's College, University of London, who died in 1967. The aim has been to offer to the public a book of essays which have a direct bearing upon his central academic interests and which is thus structured, in some measure, after his mind. He saw the study of the language and literature (together with the history and archaeology) of early Britain and Scandinavia as forming a single coherent discipline and this conception of unity in diversity can be glimpsed both in the range of matters which he chose to write upon and in many of his individual pieces. These essays will also appeal to the interested non-specialist, reflecting the fact that Norman Garmonsway was, despite his erudition, the very antithesis of the remote and secluded scholar.
Author(s): Derek A. Pearsall, Ronald A. Waldron (eds.)
Publisher: The Athlone Press
Year: 1969
Language: English
Pages: 356
City: London
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1. The Early Germanic Background of Old English Verse / FREDERICK NORMAN 3
2. Runes and Non-Runes / R. I. PAGE 28
3. 'Deor' — a Begging Poem? / NORMAN E. ELIASON 55
4. 'Mens absentia cogitans' in 'The Seafarer' and 'The Wanderer' / PETER CLEMOES 62
5. William of Malmesbury on the Works of King Alfred / DOROTHY WHITELOCK 78
6. Old English '-calla', 'ceallian' / E. G. STANLEY 94
7. Comedy of Character in the Icelandic Family Sagas / R. M. WILSON 100
8. Þrándr and the Apostles / P. G. FOOTE 129
9. An Early Representation of St. Olaf / DAVID M. WILSON 141
10. The Translator of 'Mandevilles Rejse': a new name in fifteenth-century Danish prose? / S. A. J. BRADLEY 146
11. Conjectural Emendation / GEORGE KANE 155
12. Saracens and Crusaders: from Fact to Allegory / BEATRICE WHITE 170
13. Another Fragment of the Auchinleck MS / G. V. SMITHERS 192
14. Chaucer: The Prioress’s Tale / G. H. RUSSELL 211
15. The Nine Unworthies / BRUCE DICKINS 228
16. A Middle English Version of the 'Epistola Luciferi ad Cleros' / ROBERT R. RAYMO 233
17. The Epistolary Usages of William Worcester / NORMAN DAVIS 249
18. Martinus Polonus and some Later Chroniclers / WILLIAM MATTHEWS 275
19. Pre-Conquest Historical Themes in Elizabethan Drama / GEOFFREY BULLOUGH 289
20. 'Eng. Lang.': English Language and Medieval Literature as University Studies / A. C. CAWLEY 322
Index 333
