Paul E. Szarmach is Emeritus Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University. He served a five-year term as Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America and Editor of Speculum. Szarmach’s major field of study is Old English prose with special reference to Latin backgrounds.

• Preface1. Anglo-Latin Literature in the Foreground2. North Sea Currents: Old English and Old Norse in Comparison and in Contact3. Legend hErenn: ''The Learning of Ireland'' in the Early Medieval Period