Secular heroic poetry: Beowulf. Healfdene's daughter / Norman E. Eliason

Guilt and the world's complexity: the murder of Ongentheow and the slaying of the dragon / John Gardner

Potlatch and charity: notes on the heroic in Beowulf / Charles Donahue

Gnomic indirection in Beowulf / Robert B. Burlin

Hunlafing and the point of the sword / Lewis E. Nicholson

Religious heroic poetry: The lives of holy men and women. Guthlac A and Guthlac B: some discriminations / Daniel G. Calder

Andreas and Beowulf: placing the hero / David Hamilton

Arithmetical designs of the Old English Andreas / Robert D. Stevick

The speech of Stephen and the tone of Elene / James Doubleday

Judith: hypermetricity and rhetoric / Burton Raffel

Judith: a fragmentary and political poem / David Chamberlain

The lyric tradition: Secular and religious. Toward a critique of The dream of the rood / Alvin A. Lee

The wanderer, The seafarer, and the genre of Planctus / Rosemary Woolf

Purpose and the "poetics" of The wanderer and The seafarer / W.F. Klein

A reading context for The wife's lament / Alain Renoir.

The enigma of The husband's message / Margaret E. Goldsmith

The design of the Old English Deor / James L. Boren

Biblical narrative: The Old Testament. The fall of angels and man in the Old English Genesis B / Thomas D. Hill

More scriptural echoes in the Old English Exodus / Joseph B. Trahern, Jr.

The runic tradition: Cynewulf's signed poems. The diction of the Old English Christ / Robert E. Diamond

The art of Cynewulf's runic signatures / Dolores Warwick Frese

Wisdom literature: Maxim, riddle, and gnome. Maxims II: gnome and poem / Stanley B. Greenfield, Richard Evert

Artful ambiguities in the Old English "book-moth" riddle / Fred C. Robinson

Up a tree: to see The fates of men / Neil D. Isaacs

Widsith's journey through Germanic tradition / Robert P. Creed.