Three Old English Elegies

Edition of The Wife’s Lament, The Husband’s Message and The Ruin with contextual introduction, notes and glossary.

Contents: PREFACE, vii; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, xi; INTRODUCTION; The Manuscript, 1; The Elegiac Form, 2; The Wife's Lament, 3; The Husband's Message, 12; The Ruin, 22; Dialect, 31; Date, 34; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY, 37; SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY, 44; NOTE ON THE EDITED TEXT, 46; TEXT; The Wife's Lament, 47; The Husband's Message, 49; The Ruin, 51; NOTES; The Wife's Lament, 53; The Husband's Message, 59; The Ruin, 67; GLOSSARY, 77; The Exeter Book, folio 123a, Frontispiece.