Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R. D. Fulk

444 Pages·2016·5.421 MB·English

by  Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, Tom Shippey (eds.)

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Anglo-Saxon Studies
ISSN 1475-2468
GENERAL EDITORS
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OLD ENGLISH PHILOLOGY
STUDIES IN HONOUR OF R.D. FULK
Edited by
Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual and Tom Shippey
D. S. BREWER
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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