Old English Studies and its Scandinavian Practitioners

ROBERT E BJORK is Foundation Professor of English at Arizona State University as well as co-editor of Klaeber's Beowulf (2008) and General Editor of The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (2010). He specializes in Old English and Old Norse language and literature and is a Fellow of both the Medieval Academy of America and the English Association.

Stands out as a remarkable achievement which will serve as a welcome research aid for both scholars working on primary Old English material, as well as those researching the history of their discipline. Even researchers with a focus on modern Scandinavian history and intellectual culture will find in it a mass of valuable information, as many of the philologists and translators examined by Bjork were leading figures in the society and culture of their day.

• Introduction: The View from the North Part 1: The Beginnings, 1733 to 18991. Old English Studies and the Politics of Philology in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia2. Myth of Spirit, Myth of Word in the Works of N. F. S. Grundtvig3. Grundtvig's Vision of the Old English Phoenix Part 2: The Flourishing, 1900 to 20234. Old English Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century ScandinaviaPart 3: The Continuing Interest: Beowulf and Translations of Beowulf and Other Old English Literature, 1733 to 2022 5. Scandinavian Approaches to Beowulf6. Scandinavian Translations of Beowulf7. Scandinavian Translations of Old English Literature other than BeowulfConclusion: A Truly Splendid Ruin