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Robert D. Fulk is arguably the greatest Old English philologist to emerge during the twentieth century; his corpus of scholarship has fundamentally shaped O contemporary understanding of many aspects of Anglo-Saxon literary history ld and English historical linguistics. E n g This volume, in his honour, brings together essays which engage with his work and lis advance his research interests. Scholarship on historical metrics and the dating, h P editing and interpretation of Old English poetry thus forms the core of this book; h other topics addressed include syntax, phonology, etymology, lexicology and ilo lo palaeography. An introductory overview of Professor Fulk’s achievements puts g y these studies in context, alongside essays which assess his contributions to metrical • S theory and his profound impact on the study of Beowulf. By consolidating and t u augmenting Fulk’s research, this collection takes readers to the cutting edge of d ie Old English philology. s in Leonard Neidorf is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows; H o Rafael J. Pascual is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University; n o Tom Shippey is Professor Emeritus at St. Louis University. u r o Contributors: Thomas Cable, Christopher M. Cain, George Clark, f R Dennis Cronan, Daniel Donoghue, Aaron Ecay, Mark Griffith, . D Megan E. Hartman, Stefan Jurasinski, Anatoly Liberman, Donka Minkova, . F Haruko Momma, Rory Naismith, Leonard Neidorf, Andy Orchard, u lk Rafael J. Pascual, Susan Pintzuk, Geoffrey Russom, Tom Shippey, Jun Terasawa, Charles D. Wright. Cover illustration: Miniature of St. Matthew from the Lindisfarne Gospels L ©The British Library Board, Cotton Nero D.IV, f.25v. e o n a a r n d d N T e om id o Old English Philology S r h f, ip R p a ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES 31 e fa Studies in Honour of R.D. Fulk y e (e l J d . s P ) a Edited by Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual s c and Tom Shippey u a l an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF and 668 Mt Hope Ave, Rochester NY 14620, USA www.boydellandbrewer.com Anglo-Saxon Studies 31 OLD ENGLISH PHILOLOGY NEIDORF PRINT.indd 1 03/06/2016 16:08 Anglo-Saxon Studies ISSN 1475-2468 GENERAL EDITORS John Hines Catherine Cubitt ‘Anglo-Saxon Studies’ aims to provide a forum for the best scholarship on the Anglo-Saxon peoples in the period from the end of Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest, including comparative studies involving adjacent populations and periods; both new research and major re-assessments of central topics are welcomed. Books in the series may be based in any one of the principal disciplines of archaeology, art history, history, language and literature, and inter- or multi-disciplinary studies are encouraged. Proposals or enquiries may be sent directly to the editors or the pub- lisher at the addresses given below; all submissions will receive prompt and informed consideration. Professor John Hines, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, John Percival Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, Wales, CF10 3EU, UK Professor Catherine Cubitt, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, The King’s Manor, York, England, YO1 7EP, UK Boydell & Brewer, PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, IP12 3DF, UK Previously published volumes in the series are listed at the back of this book NEIDORF PRINT.indd 2 03/06/2016 16:08 OLD ENGLISH PHILOLOGY STUDIES IN HONOUR OF R.D. FULK Edited by Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual and Tom Shippey D. S. BREWER NEIDORF PRINT.indd 3 03/06/2016 16:08 © Contributors 2016 All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 2016 D. S. Brewer, Cambridge ISBN 978-1-84384-438-9 D. S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620–2731, USA website: www.boydellandbrewer.com A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The publisher has no responsibility for the continued existence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate This publication is printed on acid-free paper NEIDORF PRINT.indd 4 03/06/2016 16:08 Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements viii List of Contributors ix Introduction: R.D. Fulk and the Progress of Philology 1 Leonard Neidorf 1 Sievers, Bliss, Fulk, and Old English Metrical Theory 17 Rafael J. Pascual 2 Ictus as Stress or Length: The Effect of Tempo 34 Thomas Cable 3 Metrical Criteria for the Emendation of Old English Poetic Texts 52 Leonard Neidorf 4 The Suppression of the Subjunctive in Beowulf: A Metrical Explanation 69 Jun Terasawa 5 Metrical Complexity and Verse Placement in Beowulf 82 Geoffrey Russom 6 Alliterating Finite Verbs and the Origin of Rank in Old English Poetry 103 Mark Griffith 7 Prosody-Meter Correspondences in Late Old English and Poema Morale 122 Donka Minkova 8 The Syntax of Old English Poetry and the Dating of Beowulf 144 Aaron Ecay and Susan Pintzuk 9 The Anglo-Saxons and Superbia: Finding a Word for it 172 George Clark 10 Old English gelōme, gelōma, Modern English loom, lame, and Their Kin 190 Anatoly Liberman 11 Worm: A Lexical Approach to the Beowulf Manuscript 200 Haruko Momma v NEIDORF PRINT.indd 5 03/06/2016 16:08 Contents 12 Wulfstan, Episcopal Authority, and the Handbook for the Use of a Confessor 215 Stefan Jurasinski 13 Some Observations on e-caudata in Old English Texts 233 Christopher M. Cain 14 The Poetics of Poetic Words in Old English 256 Dennis Cronan 15 Dream of the Rood 9b: A Cross as an Angel? 276 Daniel Donoghue 16 The Fate of Lot’s Wife: A ‘Canterbury School’ Gloss in Genesis A 292 Charles D. Wright 17 Metrical Alternation in The Fortunes of Men 311 Megan E. Hartman 18 The Originality of Andreas 331 Andy Orchard 19 The Economy of Beowulf 371 Rory Naismith 20 Beowulf Studies from Tolkien to Fulk 392 Tom Shippey The Writings of R.D. Fulk 415 Index 424 Tabula Gratulatoria 427 vi NEIDORF PRINT.indd 6 03/06/2016 16:08 Illustrations Figures 2.1 Eight logically possible alliterative verse contours (taken from Eight Old English Poems, ed. John C. Pope. 3rd ed. Revised by R.D. Fulk. New York: Norton, 2001: 150) 35 7.1 Strength relations in the septenary line 137 8.1 Linear trend lines for dating criteria 164 12.1 Distribution of sections in extant witnesses (taken from “A Late Old English Handbook for the Use of a Confessor”, ed. R. Fowler, Anglia 83 (1965): 4) 220 12.2 Detail from CCCC 265, p. 74. Photograph: Courtesy of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 227 Tables 3.1 Three-position (or fewer) verses 55 3.2 Three-position (or fewer) verses in Beowulf 56 3.3 Five-position verses 57 3.4 Verses with alliterative defects 59 3.5 Verses with defective anacrusis 61 3.6 Violations of Kuhn’s Law of Sentence of Particles 61 8.1 Frequencies for Pronoun-Related Criteria in Poetic Texts 167 13.1 Occurrence and frequency of e-caudata in DOEC 237 13.2 Forms of cweðan in the Lindisfarne gloss 241 13.3a Forms of cweðan in Farman’s gloss 242 13.3b Forms of cweðan in Owun’s gloss 243 13.4 ę-spellings of cweðan in Lindisfarne 244 13.5a ę-spellings of cweðan in Farman’s gloss 244 13.5b ę-spellings of cweðan in Owun’s gloss 245 13.6 ę-spellings in some Kentish texts 250 17.1 Distribution of normal verse types 316 The editors, contributors and publishers are grateful to all the insti- tutions and persons listed for permission to reproduce the materials in which they hold copyright. Every effort has been made to trace the copyright holders; apologies are offered for any omission, and the publishers will be pleased to add any necessary acknowledgement in subsequent editions. vii NEIDORF PRINT.indd 7 03/06/2016 16:08 Acknowledgements The editors thank everyone involved with the production of this book at Boydell & Brewer for their labor, support, and enthusiasm. We espe- cially thank Caroline Palmer for her extraordinary diligence and effi- ciency. Naturally, we are also grateful to the contributors for turning in first-rate scholarship and thereby paying apt tribute to our book’s honorand. Finally, we thank the William F. Milton Fund at Harvard University for financing the production of this book. Leonard Neidorf Rafael J. Pascual Tom Shippey viii NEIDORF PRINT.indd 8 03/06/2016 16:08

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