McMaster Old English Studies and Texts

This edition from the British Library manuscripts provides translations ofthe medieval Latin Joca Monachorum and Adrian and Epictus dialogues, and, more important, traces the sources of these sometimes rather curious ideas.

This critical edition provides unique access to a work which has challenged scholars and students alike. The book is the first to deal fully with the Old English Rune Poem as literature and to supply the runic background necessary for an understanding of the raw materials with which the poet was working.