Words And Works: Studies In Medieval English Language And Literature In Honour Of Fred C. Robinson

WORDS AND WORKS: STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN HONOUR OF FRED C. ROBINSON Fred C. Robinson Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson EDITED BY PETER S. BAKER and NICHOLAS HOWE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS TORONTO BUFFALO LONDON University of Toronto Press Incorporated 1998 Toronto Buffalo London Printed in Canada ISBN 0-8020-4153-1 Printed on acid-free paper Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Main entry under title: Words and works : studies in medieval English language and literature in honour of Fred C. Robinson (Toronto Old English series) ISBN 0-8020-4153-1 I. English philology — Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism. I. Baker, Peter S. (Peter Stuart), 1952- . II. Howe, Nicholas. III. Robinson, Fred C. (Fred Colson), 1930- . IV.Series. PE26.R62W67 1998 429 €97-932010-0 University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Contents PREFACE Vll ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix ABBREVIATIONS xi Who Read the Gospels in Old English? ROY MICHAEL LiuzzA, Tulane University 3 Byrhtferth at Work MICHAEL LAPIDGE, Cambridge University 25 An Anser for Exeter Book Riddle 74 DANIEL DONOGHUE, Harvard University 45 An Ogre's Arm: Japanese Analogues of Beowulf MICHIKO OGURA, Chiba University 59 Courtliness and Courtesy in Beowulf and Elsewhere in English Medieval Literature ERIC GERALD STANLEY, Oxford University 67 Aedelflaed of Mercia: Mise en page PAUL E. SZARMACH, Western Michigan University 105 Old English Texts and Modern Readers: Notes on Editing and Textual Criticism HELMUT GNEUSS, University of Munich 127 vi Contents The Dream of the Rood Repunctuated BRUCE MITCHELL, Oxford University 143 Mapelian in Old English Poetry MATTI RISSANEN, University of Helsinki 159 Apposition and the Subjects of Verb-Initial Clauses MARY E. BLOCKLEY, University of Texas at Austin 173 The Inflection of Latin Nouns in Old English Texts PETER s. BAKER, University of Virginia 187 When Lexicography Met the Exeter Book ROBERTA FRANK, University of Toronto 207 Chaucer's English Rhymes: The Roman, the Romaunt, and The Book of the Duchess MARIE BORROFF, Yale University 223 Seeking 'Goddes Pryvetee': Sodomy, Quitting, and Desire in The Miller's Tale DAVID LORENZO BOYD, New York City 243 Why the Monk? SIEGFRIED WENZEL, University of Pennsylvania 261 The Real Fulk Fitzwarine's Mythical Monster Fights MARIJANE OSBORN, University of California at Davis 271 Praise and Lament: The Afterlife of Old English Poetry in Auden, Hill, and Gunn NICHOLAS HOWE, Ohio State University 293 Preface aegwaspres sceal scearp scyldwiga gescad witan, worda ond worca, se pe wel pencecS The title for this volume of essays echoes the speech of the Danish coastguard as he explains to young Beowulf the need to judge a man by his words and works. The coastguard's phrase worda ond worca, rendered into Modern English, evokes wonde