Medieval Literature and Civilization Studies in Memory of G.N. Garmonsway [Hardcover]

These original contributions to the study of medieval literature and civilization in Britain and Scandinavia are published as a memorial to Norman Garmonsway, Chair of English at King's College, University of London, who died in 1967. 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. He 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. 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.

George Norman Garmonsway
1 The Early Germanic Background of Old English Verse,Frederick Norman (University of London, UK)
2 Runes and Non-Runes,R. I. Page (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK)
3 Deor  a Begging Poem?Norman E. Eliason (University of North Carolina, USA)
4 Mens absentia cogitans in The Seafarer and The Wanderer,Peter Clemos (University of Cambridge, UK)
5 William of Malmesbury on the Works of King Alfred,Dorothy Whitelock (University of Cambridge, UK)
6 Old English -calla', ceallian',E. G. Stanley (Queen Mary College, University of London, UK)
7 Comedy of Character in the Icelandic Family Sagas,R. M. Wilson (University of Sheffield, UK)
8 Pr?nr and the Apostles,P. G. Foote (University College, University of London, UK)
9 An Early Representation of St Olaf,David M. Wilson (University College, University of London, UK)
10 The Translator of Mandevilles Rejse: a new name in fifteenth-century Danish prose?S. A. J. Bradley (University of lS(