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About this book
These original 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- George Norman Garmonsway
- 1 The Early Germanic Background of Old English Verse
- 2 Runes and Non-Runes
- 3 Deor—a Begging Poem?
- 4 Mens absentia cogitans in The Seafarer and The Wanderer
- 5 William of Malmesbury on the Works of King Alfred
- 6 Old English '-calla', 'ceallian'
- 7 Comedy of Character in the Icelandic Family Sagas
- 8 Þrándr and the Apostles
- 9 An Early Representation of St Olaf
- 10 The Translator of Mandevilks Rejse: a new name in fifteenth-century Danish prose?
- 11 Conjectural Emendation
- 12 Saracens and Crusaders: from Fact to Allegory
- 13 Another Fragment of the Auchinleck MS
- 14 Chaucer: The Prioress's Tale
- 15 The Nine Unworthies
- 16 A Middle English Version of the Epistola Ludferi ad Clews
- 17 The Epistolary Usages of William Worcester
- 18 Martinus Polonus and some Later Chroniclers
- 19 Pre-Conquest Historical Themes in Elizabethan Drama
- 20 'Eng. Lang.': English Language and Medieval Literature as University Studies
- Index