Research Catalog

Title

Verbal encounters : Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse studies for Roberta Frank / edited by Antonina Harbus and Russell Poole.

Publication

• Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2005]
• ©2005

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harbus, Antonina, 1968-
• Poole, Russell Gilbert
• Frank, Roberta

Description

x, 298 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Lively exchanges, both political and cultural, with Europe and Scandinavia put speakers of the Old English language in contact with Latin and early forms of Danish and Norwegian. Verbal Encounters is a collection of essays on these contracts and exchanges, written in honour of Roberta Frank, former University Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. The essays focus on the fields of Old English, medieval Latin, and Old Norwegian and Icelandic."--

Series Statement

Toronto Old English series ; 13

Uniform Title

Toronto Old English series ; 13.

Subject

• Frank, Roberta > Bibliography
• Frank, Roberta
• Frank, Roberta, 1941-
• Frank, Roberta
• 450-1100
• English philology > Old English, ca. 450-1100
• Old Norse literature > History and criticism
• English philology > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism
• Old Norse poetry > History and criticism
• 18.03 English language and literature
• 18.14 Scandinavian languages and literature
• Old Norse poetry
• English philology > Old English
• Old Norse literature
• Literatur
• Old English
• Old Norse
• Altenglisch
• Altnordisch
• Mittellatein

Genre/Form

• Electronic books.
• Festschriften
• Essays
• Bibliographies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Festschrifts (form)
• Essays.
• Festschriften.

Note

• Essays written in honour of Roberta Frank, former professor of Medieval studies at the University of Toronto.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Roberta Frank: bibliography, 1970-2003 -- Early medieval chaos / Christopher A. Jones -- Composing and joining : how the Anglo-Saxons talked about compounding / Don Chapman -- Cennan, 'to cause to be born'/'to cause to know' : incarnation as revelation in old English literature / Pauline Head -- Pride, courage, and anger : the polysemousness of Old English Mod / Soon-Ai Low -- Desipere in loco : style, memory, and the teachable moment / Carin Ruff -- Courtroom drama and the homiletic monologues of The Vercelli book / Dorothy Haines -- 'Him thaes grim lean becom' : the theme of infertility in Genesis A / Karin Olsen -- Odd characters : runes in Old English poetry / Robert DiNapoli -- The education of Beowulf and the affair of the leisure class / Haruko Momma -- Articulate contact in Juliana / Antonina Harbus -- 11. The refracted beam : Einarr Skulason's liturgical theology / Martin Chase -- 12. Beardless wonders : 'Gaman vas Soxu' (the sex was great) / Oren Falk -- Prophetic dreams and visions in the sagas of the early Icelandic saints / Bernadine McCreesh -- Claiming kin skaldic-style / Russell Poole.

ISBN

• 0802080111
• 9780802080110

LCCN

2005297854

OCLC

• ocm56011395
• 56011395
• SCSB-8860438

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library