附註:Introduction / Jonathan Wilcox -- Byrhtnoth's laughter and the poetics of gesture / John D. Niles -- "Grim wordplay": folly and wisdom in Anglo-Saxon humor / T.A. Shippey -- Humor, wordplay, and semantic resonance in Beowulf / Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. -- Heroic humor in Beowulf / E.L. Risden -- Humor in hiding: laughter between the sheets in the Exeter Book riddles / D.K. Smith -- Sexual humor and fettered desire in Exeter Book riddle 12 / Nina Rulon-Miller -- "Why do you speak so much foolishness?": gender, humor, and discourse in Ælfric's Lives of saints / Shari Horner -- A funny thing happened on the way to heaven: humorous incongruity in Old English saints' lives / Hugh Magennis.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
