The Cambridge companion to Old English literature / edited by Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge.

Contributor Godden, Malcolm.

Imprint:Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Descriptionxiii, 298 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Note:Anglo-Saxon society and its literature / Patrick Wormald. - The Old English language / Helmut Gneuss. - The nature of Old English verse / Donald G. Scragg. - The nature of Old English prose / Janet Bately. - Germanic legend in Old English literature / Roberta Frank. - Heroic values and Christian ethics / Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe. - Pagan survivals and popular belief / John D. Niles. - Beowulf / Fred C. Robinson. - Fatalism and the millennium / Joseph B. Trahern, Jr. - Perceptions of transience / Christine Fell. - Perceptions of eternity / Milton McC. Gatch. - Biblical literature: the Old Testament / Malcolm Godden. - Biblical literature: the New Testament / Barbara C. Raw. - The saintly life in Anglo-Saxon England / Michael Lapidge. - The world of Anglo-Saxon learning / Patrizia Lendinara.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-291) and index.

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