Table of Contents

List of illustrations; 1. Latin loan-words in Old English place-names Margaret Gelling; 2. The parts of an Anglo-Saxon mill Philip Rahtz and Donald Bullough; 3. Aldhelm's prose style and its origins Michael Winterbottom; 4. The Latin and Old English glosses in the ars Tatuini Vivien Law; 5. The narrative structure of Hengest's revenge in Beowulf John F. Vickrey; 6. The penitential motif in Cynewulf's Fates of the Apostles and in his epilogues Robert C. Rice; 7. The text of the Canterbury fragment of Werferth's translation of Gregory's Dialogues and its relation to the other manuscripts David Yerkes; 8. Two lost documents of King Athelstan Eric E. Barker; 9. The Leofric Missal and tenth-century English art Robert Deshman; 10. The thematic structure of the Sermo Lupi Stephanie Hollis; 11. Napier's 'Wulfstan' homily xxx: its sources, its relationship to the Vercelli Book and its style D. G. Scragg; 12. The æcerbot charm and its Christian user Thomas D. Hill; 13. English history and Norman legend in the Icelandic saga of Edward the Confessor Christine Fell; 14. Old English literature and the liturgy: problems and potential Milton McC. Gatch; 15. Sutton Hoo published: a review Martin Biddle, Alan Binns, J. M. Cameron, D. M. Metcalf, R. I. Page, Charles Sparrow and F. L. Warren; 16. Bibliography for 1976 Carl T. Berkhout, Martin Biddle, T. J. Brown, Peter A. Clayton and Simon Keynes.

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This volume offers insights into the Anglo-Saxons' literature, their study of Latin, their documents, art and artefacts and their agricultural practices, among others.