Contents

Preface ix Abbreviations xiii

Introduction to Volume I 3

Anglo-Saxon Glosses to a Theodorean Poem? 9 Mechthild Gretsch, University ofGottingen, and Helmut Gneuss, University of Munich

Between Bede and the Chronicle: London, BL, Cotton Vespasian B. vi, fols. 104-9 47 Simon Keynes, University of Cambridge

Aldhelm the Theologian 68 Michael W. Herren, York University, Toronto

Aldhelm as Old English Poet: Exodus, Asser, and the Dicta JElfredi 90 Paul G. Remley, University of Washington, Seattle

Faricius of Arezzo's Life of St Aldhelm 109 Michael Winterbottom, University of Oxford vi Contents

Patristic Pomegranates, from Ambrose and Apponius to Bede 132 George Hardin Brown, Stanford University

The Medical Art(s) of Bede 150 Neil Wright, University of Cambridge

King Ceadwalla's Roman Epitaph 171 Richard Sharpe, University of Oxford

A Recension of Boniface's Letter to Eadburg about the Monk of Wenlock's Vision 194 Patrick Sims-Williams, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Alcuin as Exile and Educator: 'uir undecumque doctissimus' 215 Michael Fox, University of Alberta

'Quid Hinieldus cum Christo?' 237 Mary Garrison, University of York

The Sermons Attributed to Candidus Wizo 260 Christopher A. Jones, University of Notre Dame

Enigma Variations: The Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Tradition 284 Andy Orchard, University of Toronto

English Script in the Second Half of the Ninth Century 305 David N. Dumville, University of Aberdeen

Alfred, Asser, and Boethius 326 Malcolm Godden, University of Oxford

Six Cruces in Beowulf (Lines 31, 83,404, 445,1198, and 3074-5) 349 jR.D. Fulk, Indiana University

The Role of Grendel's Arm in Feud, Law, and the Narrative Strategy of Beowulf 368 Leslie Lockett, Ohio State University Contents vii

The Merov(ich)ingian Again: damnatio memoriae and the usus scholarum 389 Tom Shippey, Saint Louis University, Missouri

Three 'Cups' and a Funeral in Beowulf 407 Roberta Frank, Yale University

Beowulf in the House of Dickens 421 Nicholas Howe, University of California, Berkeley

Index of Manuscripts 441 General Index 444 Index of Glosses to Chapter 1 459 This page intentionally left blank