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OLD ENGLISH NEWSLETTER Published for The Old English Division of the Modern Language Association of America by The Department of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville VOLUME 40 NUMBER 4 ISSN 0030-1973 Old English Newsletter Volume 40 Number 4 Summer 2007 Editor R. M. Liuzza, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Associate Editors Year’s Work in Old English Studies: Daniel Donoghue, Harvard University Bibliography: Thomas Hall, University of Notre Dame Contributing Editors Research in Progress: Heide Estes, Monmouth University Conference Abstracts: Dana Oswald, University of Wisconsin, Parkside Bibliography: Melinda Menzer, Furman University Editorial Board Patrick W. Conner, West Virginia University Antonette diPaolo Healey, Dictionary of Old English David F. 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Copyright © 2007 The University of Tennessee. http://www.oenewsletter.org/ In this Issue Old English Bibliography 2006 3 Research in Progress 2006 40 How to Contact the Old English Newsletter inside back cover Old English Bibliography 2006 Thomas N. Hall Melinda Menzer University of Notre Dame Furman University 1. General and Miscellaneous Subjects. 2. Memorials, Tributes, History of the Discipline. 3. Language (a. Lexicon, Glosses; b. Syntax, Phonology, Other Aspects). 4. Literature (a. General and Miscellaneous; b. Individual Poems; c. Prose). 5. Anglo-Latin, Ecclesiastical Works. 6. Manuscripts, Illumination, Charters. 7. History and Culture. 8. Names. 9. Archaeology, Sculpture, Inscriptions, Numismatics. 10. Book Reviews. Sections 1–2 and 4–10 were compiled by Hall, section 3 by Hall and Menzer. An asterisk (*) following an entry means that we have not had the item in hand but have tried to verify the entry’s accuracy and relevance from at least two independent bibliographical sources. 1. General and Miscellaneous Subjects D[oane], A. N., and K[irsten] W[olf]. “Introduction.” Beatus Vir. Ed. Doane and Wolf. [see sect. 2] pp. Beck, Heinrich, et al., eds. Reallexikon der Ger manischen xv–xxi. Altertumskunde. 2nd ed. Vol. XXXI: Tiszalök–Vado- Donoghue, Daniel, and R.M. Liuzza, eds.; Frances Alt- marius. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, vater, Mary Blockley, Christopher Cain, Elizabeth 2006. vi, 587 pp. ill. + plates. [arts. on Traum und Coatsworth, John David Cormican, Craig R. Davis, Traumgesichte, Trewhiddle, Tribal Hidage, Trink- Glenn Davis, Jeannette Denton, Nicole Guenther gelage und Trinksitten, Trink horn, Undley, etc.] Discenza, Genevieve Fisher, Mary Frances Gian- _____, et al., eds. Reallexikon der Ger manischen Alter- drea, Kurt Gustav Goblirsch, John Harkness, David tumskunde. 2nd ed. Vol. XXXII: Vä–Vulgar reht. Ber- F. Johnson, Richard F. Johnson, Eileen A. Joy, Stefan lin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006. vi, 666 Jurasinski, Aaron Kleist, Joseph P. McGowan, Har- pp. ill. + plates. [arts. on Vers und Versmäß, Verula- uko Momma, Robin Norris, Elisabeth Oliver, David mium, Vita Columbani, Völker- und Stammes namen, W. Porter, Mary K. Ramsey, Elizabeth Rowe, Phillip Vulgärlatein, etc.] G. Rusche, Emily Thornbury, M. Jane Toswell, and _____, et al., eds. Reallexikon der Ger manischen Alter- Benjamin C. Withers. “The Year’s Work in Old Eng- tumskunde. 2nd ed. Vol. XXXIII: Waagen und lish Studies 2003.” OEN 38.2 (Winter 2005), 3 –219. Gewichte–Wielandlied. Berlin and New York: Walter Drout, Michael D. C. “A Spliced Old English Quota tion de Gruyter, 2006. vi, 622 pp. ill. + plates. [arts. on in ‘Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics.’” Tolkien Waffennamen, Wales, Wandmalerei, Wans dyke, Studies 3 (2006), 149–52. Wapentake, Wealh, Wergeld, Wessex, West Hesler- Emmerson, Richard K., ed. Key Figures in Medi- ton, West Stow, Westgermanische Sprachen, Whitby, eval Europe: An Encyclopedia. New York and Lon- Widsith, Wieland, etc.] don: Routledge, 2006. xliv, 733 pp. + maps. [entries Biggam, C. P. “Anglo-Saxon Plant Name Survey on Ælfric, Æthelwold, Alcuin, Aldhelm, Alfred the (ASPNS): Seventh Annual Report, January 2006.” Great, Bede the Venerable, Cædmon, Dunstan of OEN 39.3 (Spring 2006), 19. Canterbury, Edward the Con fessor, etc.] Butler, Robert M., ed. “Abstracts of Papers in Anglo- Estes, Heide. “Research in Progress 2005.” OEN 39.4 Saxon Studies.” OEN 39.3 (Spring 2006), 36–139. (Summer 2006), 43–48. Christie, Edward. “Circolwyrde 2006: New Electro nic Fehrenbacher, Richard W. “Beowulf as Fairy-Story: Resources for Anglo-Saxon Studies.” OEN 40.1 (Fall Enchanting the Elegiac in The Two Towers.” Tolkien 2006), 59–62. Studies 3 (2006), 101–15. Cornwell, Bernard. The Lords of the North. London: Frantzen, Allen J. “‘Hrothgar Built Roads’: Grendel’s HarperCollins, 2006. [xv], 319 pp. + map. [novel set Ride in LA.” OEN 39.3 (Spring 2006), 27–35, ill. in Alfredian England] Garver, Lee. “Seafarer Socialism: Pound, The New Age, 4 Old English Newsletter and Anglo-Medieval Radicalism.” Jnl of Modern Lit- n.p. [online] erature 29.4 (Summer 2006), 1–21. [Pound’s The Mitchell, Bruce. “English–Seaxisc Bletsung / Anglo- Seafarer] Saxon Benediction.” Chatter of Choughs. Ed. Newlyn. Godden, Malcolm, and Simon Keynes, eds. Anglo- pp. 94–95. [OE poem] Saxon England 35. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Newlyn, Lucy, ed. Chatter of Choughs: An Anthology Press, 2006. x, 398 pp. ill. + plates. Celebrating the Return of Cornwall’s Legendary Bird. Goldberg, Robert. “Frodo as Beowulf: Tolkien Reshapes Illustrated by Lucy Wilkinson. Foreword by Jon the Anglo-Saxon Heroic Ideal.” Mallorn: The Jnl of Stallworthy. Afterword by Charles Thomas. 2nd ed. the Tolkien Soc. 44 (2006), 29–34, ill. Penzance: The Hypatia Trust in association with St Hall, Thomas N., and Melinda Menzer. “Old English Edmund Hall, Oxford, 2005. xxxvi, 140 pp. ill. Bibliography 2005.” OEN 39.4 (Summer 2006), 3–42. Oliver, Lisi. “A Banner Year for Beowulf on the Boards.” Holland, Joan. “Dictionary of Old English: 2006 Prog- OEN 39.3 (Spring 2006), 22–26, ill. ress Report.” OEN 40.1 (Fall 2006), 21–25. Osborn, Marijane. “Bruder’s Beowulf: A Critical Pref- Jenkyns, Joy. “Last Call.” Chatter of Choughs. Ed. New- ace by the Translator.” In Geardagum 26 (2006), 5–18. lyn. pp. 90–91. [OE poem] _____. “Bruder’s Beowulf: Ein heldisches Spiel.” In Gear- Jones, Chris. Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English dagum 26 (2006), 19–52. [English translation of Otto in Twentieth-Century Poetry. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Bruder’s play, based on the 1931 2nd ed.] Press, 2006. x, 266 pp. [Auden, Heaney, Morgan, _____. “Grendel’s Mother Broods over Her Feral Son.” Pound] OEN 39.3 (Spring 2006), 20–21. [poem] Jurasinski, Stefan. “Andrew Horn, Alfredian Apo crypha, Park, Young-Bae. “Teaching Medieval English in Korea and the Anglo-Saxon Names of the Mirror of Justices.” in the Twenty-First Century.” Textual and Contextual JEGP 105 (2006), 540–63. Studies in Medieval English. Ed. Ogura. [see sect. 3b] Kalinke, Marianne E., ed. St. Oswald of Northum bria: pp. 147–60. Continental Metamorphoses. With an Edition and Pluskowski, Aleksander. Wolves and the Wilderness in Translation of ‘Ósvalds saga’ and ‘Van sunte Oswaldo the Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006. [viii], deme konninghe’. MRTS 297, Arizona Studies in the 240 pp. ill. [Anglo-Saxon wolf lore passim] Middle Ages and the Renaissance 15. Tempe: ACMRS, Prescott, Andrew. “‘Kinge Athelston That Was a Wor- 2005. xiii, 207 pp. thy Kinge of England’: Anglo-Saxon Myths of the Karkov, Catherine E., and Nicholas Howe, eds. Con- Freemasons.” The Power of Words. Ed. Magennis and version and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England. Wilcox. [see sect. 2] pp. 397–434. MRTS 318, Essays in Anglo-Saxon Studies 2. Tempe: Remley, Paul G.; Carole P. Biggam, Simon Keynes, ACMRS, 2006. xx, 247 pp. ill. Carole Hough, Rebecca Rushforth, Mark Black- _____. “Introduction.” Conversion and Colonization in burn, Martha Bayless, Felicity H. Clark, and Fiona Anglo-Saxon England. Ed. Karkov and Howe. pp. Edmonds. “Bibliography for 2005.” ASE 35 (2006), xi–xx. 285–398. Karkov, Catherine E.; Sarah Larratt Keefer, and Karen Steele, Felicia Jean. “Dreaming of Dragons: Tol kien’s Louise Jolly, eds. The Place of the Cross in Anglo- Impact on Heaney’s Beowulf.” Mythlore 25 (Fall– Saxon England. Publ. of the Manchester Centre for Winter 2006), 137–46. Anglo-Saxon Studies 4. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006. Treharne, Elaine. “Record of the Twelfth Conference xx, 171 pp. ill. of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists at Kightley, Michael R.