Mostly Medieval: In Memory of Jacek Fisiak

112 Mostly Medieval This means that, before examples of the partial parallel in Old English poetry can be confidently identified, a thorough search needs to be made for examples of the balanced parallel in the entire Old English poetic corpus, and that they should be listed together with those for Beowulf in an enlarged and renumbered version of the list in McTurk (2006). That such a search is worth undertaking is strongly suggested by the admirable clarity and precision of the great majority of Campbell’s ten types of parallel, which it has been part of the purpose of this paper to illustrate. Once a decision has been made as to how to treat the different manifestations of the compound word paralleled by a two-word phrase, and once the descriptive list of McTurk (2006) has been expanded to include all the balanced parallels in the Old English poetic corpus, the way will be open for a systematic listing and description of all ten types of parallel in the entire corpus. References Primary sources Jack, George (ed.) ([1994] 1997) Beowulf: A Student Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Klaeber, Friedrich (ed.) ([1922] 1950) Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg. Edited, with Introduction, Bibliography, Notes, Glossary, and Appendices. 3rd ed. with 1st and 2nd supplements. Boston, MA: D.C. Heath. Klaeber’s Beowulf (2008) = Fulk, Robert D., Robert E. Bjork, John D. Niles (eds.) (2008) Klaeber’s Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, with Introduction, Commentary, Appendices, Glossary, and Bibliography. Foreword by Helen Damico. 4th ed. based on Klaeber ([1922] 1950). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Mitchell, Bruce, Fred C. Robinson (eds.) ([1998] 2002) Beowulf: An Edition with Relevant Shorter Texts. Including [pp. 183–94] “Archaeology and Beowulf ” by Leslie Webster. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Special studies Bliss, Alan J. ([1958] 1962) The Metre of Beowulf. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist ([1959] 1971) The Art of Beowulf. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Calder, Daniel G. (1979) “The Study of Style in Old English Poetry: A Historical Introduction.” [In:] Daniel G. Calder (ed.) Old English Poetry: Essays on Style. (Contributions of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 10). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press; 1–65.

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