Table of Contents

List of illustrations; 1. An Anglo-Saxon mass for St Willibrord and its later liturgical uses Nicholas Orchard; 2. Some difficulties in Beowulf, lines 874–902: Sigemund reconsidered M. S. Griffith; 3. The Metrical Epilogue to the Alfredian Pastoral Care: a postscript from Junius Peter J. Lucas; 4. Sociolinguistic aspects of Old English colour lexemes C. P. Biggam; 5. The interchangeability of Old English verbal prefixes Michiko Ogura; 6. The Regularis Concordia and its Old English gloss Lucia Kornexl; 7. Law and litigation in the Libellus Æthelwoldi episcopi Alan Kennedy; 8. A unique Old English formula for excommunication from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 303 E. M. Treharne; 9. The Anglo-Saxons and the Christianization of Scandinavia Lesley Abrams; 10. The Anglo-Saxon gospelbooks of Judith, countess of Flanders: their text, make-up and function Patrick McGurk and Jane Rosenthal; 11. Bibliography for 1994 Lesley J. Abrams, Carl T. Berkhout, Mark Blackburn, Sarah Foot, Alexander Rumble and Simon Keynes.

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This volume contains studies of texts that have come down to us from pre-Conquest times, thus enhancing our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England.