Essays bringing out the crucial importance of philology for understanding Old English texts.

Introduction: R.D. Fulk and the Progress of Philology - Leonard NeidorfSievers, Bliss, Fulk, and Old English Metrical Theory - Rafael J. PascualIctus as Stress or Length: The Effect of - Thomas CableMetrical Criteria for the Emendation of Old English Poetic Texts - Leonard NeidorfThe Suppression of the Subjunctive in Beowulf: A Metrical Explanation - Jun TerasawaMetrical Complexity and Verse Placement in Beowulf - Geoffrey RussomAlliterating Finite Verbs and the Origin of Rank in Old English Poetry - Mark GriffithProsody-Meter Correspondences in Late Old English and Poema Morale - Donka MinkovaThe Syntax of Old English Poetry and the Dating of Beowulf - Aaron Ecay and Susan PintzukThe Anglo-Saxons and Superbia: Finding a Word for it - George ClarkOld English gelome, geloma, Modern English loom, lame, and Their Kin - Anatoly LibermanWorm: A Lexical Approach to the Beowulf ManuscriptWulfstan, Episcopal Authority, and the Handbook for the Use of a Confessor - Stefan JursinskiSome Observations on e-caudata in Old English Texts (355-386) - Christopher M. CainThe Poetics of Poetic Words in Old English - Dennis CronanDream of the Rood 9b: A Cross as an Angel?The Fate of Lot's Wife: A 'Canterbury School' Gloss in Genesis A - Charles D WrightMetrical Alternation in The Fortunes of Men - Megan E. HartmanThe Originality of Andreas - Andy OrchardThe Economy of Beowulf - Rory NaismithBeowulf Studies from Tolkien to Fulk - Tom ShippeyThe Writings of R.D. Fulk