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Article: Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2005
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Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr. Ed. by MARK C. AMODIO and KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFER. Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press. 2003. x+359 pp. $78; 48 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-4822-6.
This important collection offers fourteen essays on Old English literature and philology, focusing predominantly on Old English verse (especially biblical and heroic verse) and on problems of editing and lexicography. Including a variety of approaches from some of the most important scholars in the field, the book constitutes a veritable snapshot of the current state of thinking on the broader field which Irving himself ...