Medieval Literature and Civilization: Studies in Memory of G. N. Garmonsway

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing. George Norman Garmonsway i 1. The Early Germanic Background of Old English Verse / FREDERICK NORMAN 3 2. Runes and Non-Runes / R. I. PAGE 28 3. 'Deor' — a Begging Poem? / NORMAN E. ELIASON 55 4. 'Mens absentia cogitans' in 'The Seafarer' and 'The Wanderer' / PETER CLEMOES 62 5. William of Malmesbury on the Works of King Alfred / DOROTHY WHITELOCK 78 6. Old English '-calla', 'ceallian' / E. G. STANLEY 94 7. Comedy of Character in the Icelandic Family Sagas / R. M. WILSON 100 8. Þrándr and the Apostles / P. G. FOOTE 129 9. An Early Representation of St. Olaf / DAVID M. WILSON 141 10. The Translator of 'Mandevilles Rejse': a new name in fifteenth-century Danish prose? / S. A. J. BRADLEY 146 11. Conjectural Emendation / GEORGE KANE 155 12. Saracens and Crusaders: from Fact to Allegory / BEATRICE WHITE 170 13. Another Fragment of the Auchinleck MS / G. V. SMITHERS 192 14. Chaucer: The Prioress’s Tale / G. H. RUSSELL 211 15. The Nine Unworthies / BRUCE DICKINS 228 16. A Middle English Version of the 'Epistola Luciferi ad Cleros' / ROBERT R. RAYMO 233 17. The Epistolary Usages of William Worcester / NORMAN DAVIS 249 18. Martinus Polonus and some Later Chroniclers / WILLIAM MATTHEWS 275 19. Pre-Conquest Historical Themes in Elizabethan Drama / GEOFFREY BULLOUGH 289 20. 'Eng. Lang.': English Language and Medieval Literature as University Studies / A. C. CAWLEY 322 Index 333 Edited By D. A. Pearsall And R. A. Waldron. Bibliographical Footnotes.