The Tomb of Beowulf: And Other Essays on Old English Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
Pt. I	Literary Interpretation: Beowulf	1
1	The Tomb of Beowulf	3
2	Elements of the Marvelous in the Characterization of Beowulf: A Reconsideration of the Textual Evidence	20
3	History, Religion, Culture: The Background Necessary for Teaching Beowulf	36
4	An Introduction to Beowulf	52
Pt. II	Literary Interpretation: Several Poems	69
5	Two Aspects of Variation in Old English Poetry	71
6	Understanding an Old English Wisdom Verse: Maxims II, lines 10ff	87
7	Artful Ambiguities in the Old English "Book-Moth" Riddle	98
8	God, Death, and Loyalty in The Battle of Maldon	105
9	Some Aspects of the Maldon Poet's Artistry	122
10	Literary Dialect in Maldon and the Casley Transcript	138
11	Lexicography and Literary Criticism: A Caveat	140
Pt. III	Women in Old English Literature	153
12	The Prescient Woman in Old English Literature	155
13	Old English Poetry: The Question of Authorship	164
14	A Metronymic in The Battle of Maldon?	170
15	European Clothing Names and the Etymology of Girl	175
Pt. IV	Names in Old English Literature	183
16	The Significance of Names in Old English Literature	185
17	Personal Names in Medieval Narrative and the Name of Unferth in Beowulf	219
18	Anglo-Saxon Onomastics in the Old English Andreas	224
19	Some Uses of Name-Meanings in Old English Poetry	228
Pt. V	Old English in the Twentieth Century	237
20	"The Might of the North": Pound's Anglo-Saxon Studies and The Seafarer	239
21	Ezra Pound and the Old English Translational Tradition	259
22	The Afterlife of Old English: A Brief History of Composition in Old English after the Close of the Anglo-Saxon Period	275
23	Medieval, the Middle Ages	304
	List of Essays and Notes by Fred C. Robinson Not Included in this Volume	316
	Index	320