The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature

includes index and biblioraphy

Anglo-saxon society and its literature ............1 The old English language ............23 The nature of Old English verse..............55 The nature of old English prose .............71 Germanic legened in old english prose ............71 Germanic legend in Old english literatue ...........88 Heroic values and christian ethics ..........107 Pagan survivals and popular belief............126 Beowulf.........................142 Fatalisms and the Millennium ............160 Perception of Transience .........172 Perception of Eternity ........190 Biblical Literature ..............206 Biblical Literature ............227 The saintly life in Anglo-Saxon England ........243 The world of Anglowl-saxon learning ...........264