Online Articles and Further Reading

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• Bambas, Rudolph C. "Another View of the Old English Wife's Lament." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 62 (1963): 303-309.
• Battles, Paul. "Of Graves, Caves, and Subterranean Dwellings: Eorðscræf and Eorðsele in the Wife's Lament." Philological Quarterly 73.3 (1994): 267-86.
• Belanoff, P. A. "Women's Songs, Women's Language: Wulf and Eadwacer and the Wife's Lament." New Readings on Women in Old English Literature. Eds. Helen Damico and A. H. Olsen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. 193-203.
• Campbell, A. Old English Grammar. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959.
• Campbell, J. J. "The Dialect Vocabulary of the Old English Bede." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 50 (1951): 349-372.
• Chambers, R. W., Max Förster, and Robin Flower. The Exeter Book of Old English Poetry. London: Printed and pub. for the dean and chapter of Exeter cathedral, 1933.
• Conner, Patrick W. Anglo-Saxon Exeter: a tenth-century cultural history. Studies in Anglo-Saxon history, 4. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993.
• Curry, Jane L. "Approaches to a Translation of the Anglo-Saxon The Wife's Lament." Medium Aevum 35 (1966): 187-198.
• Davidson, Clifford. "Erotic 'Women's Songs' in Anglo-Saxon England." Neophilologus 59 (1975): 451-62.
• Davis, Thomas M. "Another View of The Wife's Lament." Papers on Language and Literature 1 (1965): 291-305.
• Doane, A. N. "Heathen Form and Christian Function in The Wife's Lament." Mediaeval Studies 28 (1966): 77-91.
• Drage, Elaine M. "Bishop Leofric and the Exeter Cathedral Chapter, 1050-1072: a reassessment of the manuscript evidence." Unpublished University of Oxford D Phil, 1979.
• Dunleavy, Gareth W. "Possible Irish Analogues for The Wife's Lament." Philological Quarterly 35 (1956): 208-213.
• Gameson, Fiona, and Richard Gameson. "Wulf and Eadwacer, The Wife's Lament, and the Discovery of the Individual in Old English Verse." Studies in English Language and Literature: "Doubt Wisely". Eds. M. J. Toswell and E. M. Tyler: Routledge, London 1996. 457-74.
• Green, Martin. "Time, Memory, and Elegy in The Wife's Lament." The Old English Elegies: New Essays in Criticism and Research. Ed. Martin Green: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, Rutherford, 1983. 123-132.
• Greenfield, Stanley B. "The Wife's Lament Reconsidered." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 68.4 (1953): 907-12.
• Hall, Alaric. "The Images and Structure of The Wife's Lament." Leeds Studies in English 33 (2002): 1-29.
• Hill, Thomas D. "'Leger Weardiaþ': The Wife's Lament 34b." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 15.2 (2002): 34-37.
• Hough, Carole. "The Wife's Lament Line 15B and Daniel Line 499B: Two Notes on Place-Name Evidence." English Language Notes 35.4 (1998): 1-4.
• ---. "The Riddle of The Wife's Lament Line 34b." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 16.4 (2003): 5-8.
• Johnson, William C., Jr. "The Wife's Lament as Death-Song." The Old English Elegies: New Essays in Criticism and Research. Ed. Martin Green: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, Rutherford, 1983. 69-81.
• Lapidge, Michael. "Surviving Booklists from Anglo-Saxon England." Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Eds. Helmut Gneuss and Michael Lapidge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. 33-89.
• Lench, Elinor. "The Wife's Lament: A Poem of the Living Dead." Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 1 (1970): 3-23. <
• Malone, Kemp. "Two English Frauenlieder." Comparative Literature 14.1 (1962): 106-17.
• Muir, Bernard James. The Exeter book: a bibliography. Exeter medieval English texts and studies. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1991.
• ---. The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: an edition of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501. Exeter medieval English texts and studies. 2 vols. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1994.
• Niles, J. D., 'The Problem of the Ending of The Wife's Lament', Speculum 78 (2003), 1107-50.
• Renoir, Alain. "A Reading Context for The Wife's Lament." Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Essays in Appreciation for John C. McGalliard. Eds. Lewis E. Nicholson, Dolores Warwick Frese and John C. Gerber: U of Notre Dame P, Notre Dame, 1975. 224-41.
• ---. "A Reading of The Wife's Lament." English Studies 58 (1977): 4-19.
• Rissanen, Matti. "The Theme of 'Exile' in The Wife's Lament." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 70 (1969): 90-104.
• Rountree, Thomas J. "The Wife's Lament, 25b-26." Explicator 29 (1970-1): 24.
• Schaefer, Ursula. "Two Women in Need of a Friend: a comparison of The Wife's Lament and Eangyth's Letter to Boniface." Germanic Dialects: linguistic and philological investigations. Eds. Bela Brogyanyi and Thomas Krommelbein. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins, 1986. 491-524.
• Short, Douglas D. "The Old English Wife's Lament: An Interpretation." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 71 (1970): 585-603.
• Sisam, Kenneth. "The Exeter Book." Studies in the History of Old English Literature. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1953. 97-108.
• Stevens, Martin. "The Narrator of 'The Wife's Lament'." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 69 (1968): 72-90.
• Treharne, Elaine. "Producing a Library in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Exeter 1050-1072." Review of English Studies 54 (2003): 155-172.
• Tripp, Raymond P., Jr. "The Narrator as Revenant: A Reconsideration of Three Old English Elegies." Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature 8 (1972): 339-61.
• Walker-Pelkey, Faye. "'Frige hwæt ic hatte': The Wife's Lament as Riddle." Papers on Language and Literature: A Journal for Scholars and Critics of Language and Literature 28.3 (1992): 242-266.
• Wentersdorf, Karl P. "The Situation of the Narrator's Lord in The Wife's Lament." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen: 71 (1970): 604-10.
• Wentersdorf, Karl P. "The Situation of the Narrator in the Old English Wife's Lament." Speculum 56.3 (1981): 492-516.