This is a study of medieval literature and civilization in Britain and Scandinavia published as a memorial to Norman Garmonsway. 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. 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.

Norman Garmonsway 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.

Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors
1 The Early Germanic Background of Old English Verse
2 Runes and Non-Runes
3 Deor – a Begging Poem?
4 Mens absentia cogitans in The Seafarer and The Wanderer
5 William of Malmesbury on the Works of King Alfred
6 Old English ‘-calla’, ‘ceallian’
7 Comedy of Character in the Icelandic Family Sagas)
8 Pránr and the Apostles
9 An Early Representation of St Olaf
10 The Translator of Mandevilles Rejse: a new name in fifteenth-century Danish prose?
11 Conjectural Emendation
12 Saracens and Crusaders: from Fact to Allegory
13 Another Fragment of the Auchinleck MS
14 Chaucer: The Prioress’s Tale
15 The Nine Unworthies
16 A Middle English Version of the Epistola Leciferi ad Cleros
17 The Epistolary Usages of William Worcester
18 Matinus Polonus and some Later Chroniclers
19 Pre-Conquest Historical Themes in Elizabethan Drama)
20 ‘Eng. Lang.’: English Language and Medieval Literature as University Studies
Index

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