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THE TRANSMISSION OF BEOWULF 1 CONTENTS 8 List of Illustrations 10 Series Foreword by Gregory Nagy 12 Preface 14 Acknowledgments 18 List of Abbreviations 20 1. Introduction 22 1. The Duration of Transmission 22 2. The Detection of Scribal Error 31 3. Meter and Alliteration 39 4. Probabilistic Reasoning 43 5. General Prefatory Remarks 46 2. Language History 52 1. Diachronic Variation 52 2. Dialectal Variation 67 3. Syntactic Misconstruction 78 4. Trivialization 83 5. Interpolation 89 3. Cultural Change 94 1. Obliteration of Personal Names 94 2. Obliteration of Ethnic Names 101 3. Erroneous Spacing 108 4. Scribal Self-Correction 113 5. Chronological Significance 117 4. Scribal Behavior 124 1. The Lexemic Theory 124 2. Competing Theories 130 3. Variation in Parallel Texts 135 4. The Four Poetic Codices 147 5. Theory and Evidence 151 5. Conclusion 154 1. The Unity of Beowulf 154 2. Linguistic Regularities 158 3. Methodological Considerations 170 4. Textual Criticism 176 5. Manuscript Context 181 Appendix: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Beowulf Textual Criticism 184 Glossary of Terms 196 Bibliography 200 Index of Verses 216 Index of Subjects 220

Author

LEONARD NEIDORF

Published

2017

Language

EN