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A Celtic etymology for Old English "deor" ("brave"), Andrew Breeze;Aelfric's "Letters" and the "Excerptiones Ecgberhti", J.E. Cross and AndrewHamer; Old English "orc" ("cup, goblet") - a Latin loan-word with attitude,Roberta Frank; Sodom and Gomorrah in prose works from Alfred's reign, AllenJ. Frantzen; Waerferth and King Alfred - the fate of the Old English"Dialogues", M.R. Godden; the first venture into "medieval geography" -Lambarde's map of the Saxon Heptarchy (1568), Walter Goffart; "ece"("eternal") in Aelfric, Lynne Grundy; the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" at Ramsey,Cyril Hart; Aelfric's "Homily on the Holy Innocents" - the sources reviewed,Joyce Hill; Anglo-Saxon entries in the "Liber Vitae" of Brescia, SimonKeynes; analysis of a translator - the Old English "Wonders of the East", AnnKnock; the Sign 7 in the Annal for 871 in the Parker Chronicle MS Cambridge,Corpus Christi College 173, Bruce Mitchell; "...sicit olim gensFrancorum...nunc gens Anglorum" - Fulk's letter to Alfred revisited, Janet L.Nelson; Alfredian piety - the "Book of Nunnaminster", Barbara Raw; "felamartyra" ("many martyrs") - a different view of Orisius's city, Jane Roberts;Wifcythe and the morality of the Cynewulf and Cyneheard episode in the"Anglo-Saxon Chronicle", D.G. Scragg; the solar eclipse of Wednesday 29thOctober 878 - 9th-century historical records and the findings of modernastronomy, Alfred B. Smyth; on the laws of King Alfred - the end of thepreface and the beginning of the laws, E.G. Stanley; Alfred's "Boethius" andthe Four Cardinal Virtues, Paul E. Szarmach; the Lambarde problem - 80 yearson, Patrick Wormald.