Offprints

Daniel Paul O'Donnell, Ph.D.
University of Lethbridge

Dissertation

My dissertation can be browsed by chapter or as a whole document. The abstract and figures are found in a separate file.

Please note: This is a new printout from the original files submitted to Yale and UMI. Although I have made no changes to the text, the conversion to PDF format has affected pagination. References to this version of my dissertation should use the following citation:

• O'Donnell, Daniel Paul. "Manuscript Variation in Multiple Recension Old English Poetic Texts: The Technical Problem and Poetic Art." Unpublished PhD Dissertation. Electronic Reprint, Version 2.0. Yale University, 1996. Supervisor: Fred C. Robinson. Review: Linguistica e Filologia 9 (1999): 156.
  
  [Abstract] | [Entire Text (± 2 MB)] [ Figures and Diagrams (± 2 MB)]
  [ Front Matter] [Chapter 1] [Chapter 2] [Chapter 3] [Chapter 4] [Chapter 5]
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Book

• The Electronic Cædmon’s Hymn. [CD-ROM]. Under review at Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts (Medieval Academy/Boydell).
  

Articles

• "Bede's Strategy in in Paraphrasing Cædmon's Hymn." Under review at JEGP. (Password protected: for private use only).
  
• “Junius’s Knowledge of the Old English Poem Durham.” Anglo-Saxon England 30 (2002). 231-245. 
• “The Accuracy of the St. Petersburg Bede.” Notes and Queries 247 (2002): 4-6.  
• “Fish and Fowl: Generic Expectations and the Relationship between the Old English Phoenix poem and Lactantius’s de ave phoenice.” In: Germanic Texts and Latin Models: Medieval Reconstructions. Ed. K.E. Olsen, A. Harbus and T. Hofstra. Germania Latina IV. Mediaevalia Groningana, n.s. 2. Leuven, Paris and Sterling, VA: Peeters, 2001. 157- 71.  
• “Hædre and Hædre Gehogode (Solomon and Saturn line 62b and Resignation line 63a).” Notes and Queries 244 (1999). 312-316.  
  
• “The Spirit and the Letter: Literary Embellishment in Old Frisian Legal Texts.” Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 49 (1998): 245-256.  
• “A Northumbrian Version of ‘Cædmon’s Hymn’ (eordu-recension) in Brussels Bibliothèque Royale Manuscript 8245-57 ff.62r2-v1: Identification, Edition, and Filiation.” In: Beda Venerabilis: Historian, Monk and Northumbrian. Edited by L.A.R.J. Houwen and A.A. MacDonald. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1996. 139-166.  
• “Schoolbook Design in the Fifteenth Century.” The Yale University Library Gazette 70 (1995). 23-38.  
• “The Collective Sense of Concrete Singular Nouns in Beowulf: Emendations of Sense.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 92 (1991). 433-440.  

Encyclopedia Entry

• “Cædmon.” Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, Volume C (Western Michigan University Press, Forthcoming). (Password protected: for private use only)

Reviews

• Donald Scragg and Carole Weinberg, eds. Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Centuries (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 29). Early Medieval Europe 11.2 (2002).
• Timothy Graham, ed. The Recovery of Old English: Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center). Early Medieval Europe 11.1 (2002): 93-95.
• Hal Momma, The Composition of Old English Poetry (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 20). Early Medieval Europe 8.1 (1999): 163-166.