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Klappentext This volume contains studies of texts that have come down to us from pre-Conquest times! thus enhancing our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England. Zusammenfassung Our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England depends wholly on the precise and detailed study of the texts that have come down to us from pre-Conquest times. The present book contains pioneering studies of some of these sources which have been neglected or misunderstood. The usual comprehensive bibliography rounds off the book. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; 1. An Anglo-Saxon mass for St Willibrord and its later liturgical uses Nicholas Orchard; 2. Some difficulties in Beowulf, lines 874¿902: Sigemund reconsidered M. S. Griffith; 3. The Metrical Epilogue to the Alfredian Pastoral Care: a postscript from Junius Peter J. Lucas; 4. Sociolinguistic aspects of Old English colour lexemes C. P. Biggam; 5. The interchangeability of Old English verbal prefixes Michiko Ogura; 6. The Regularis Concordia and its Old English gloss Lucia Kornexl; 7. Law and litigation in the Libellus Æthelwoldi episcopi Alan Kennedy; 8. A unique Old English formula for excommunication from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 303 E. M. Treharne; 9. The Anglo-Saxons and the Christianization of Scandinavia Lesley Abrams; 10. The Anglo-Saxon gospelbooks of Judith, countess of Flanders: their text, make-up and function Patrick McGurk and Jane Rosenthal; 11. Bibliography for 1994 Lesley J. Abrams, Carl T. Berkhout, Mark Blackburn, Sarah Foot, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes.
