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Chaucer's translation of the Bible, by W.M. Thompson.--God's wenches and the light that spoke, by N. Coghill.--The anthropological approach by C.S. Lewis--The textual transmission of the alliterative Morte Arthure, by A. McIntosh.--Thurstable, by G. Turville-Petre.--Art and tradition in Skirnismal, by U. Dronke.--Two sixteenth-century editions of The life of St. Catharine of Alexandria, by A. Kurvinen.--Climates of opinions, by J.A.W. Bennett.--Magic in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, by C.L. Wrenn.--Man and monsters at Sutton Hoo, by Norman Davis.

Bibliographical footnotes.

A short ode to a philologist / W.H. Auden -- The Old English epic style / A. Campbell -- The appreciation of Old English metre / A.J. Bliss -- King Alfred's last war / M.E. Griffiths -- Six questions of Old and Middle English morphology / C.E. Bazell -- Studies in late West-Saxon labialization and delabialization / P. Gradon -- The Bodmer fragment of AElfric's homily for Septuagesima Sunday / N.R. Kerr -- A neglected manuscript of British history / S.R.T.O. d'Ardenne -- Ormulum : words copied by Jan van Vliet from parts now lost / R.W. Burchfield -- Alliterative phrases in the Ormulum : some Norse parallels / E.S. Olszewska -- The affiliations of the manuscripts of Ancrene Wisse / E.J. Dobson -- God and man in Troilus and Criseyde / T.P. Dunning.