Rydén, Mats ; Kardela, Henryk ; Nordlander, Johan ; & Odenstedt, Bengt ; editors: - From Runes to Romance : A Festschrift for Gunnar Persson on his Sixtieth Birthday, November 9, 1997

Umeå [Sweden], Umeå Universitet, 1997. orig. wrappers. 24x15cm, ix,268 pp. Series: Acta Universitatis Umensis, Umeå Studies in the Humanities, 140.. ISBN: 9171913777. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 23 papers, all in English. Includes: Finiteness & Auxiliarihood; Elves & Old English Proper Names; Cruel, Pure Relationship: An Aspect of Michael Ondaatje; On Cultural Indeterminacy in Grace Ogot's Work; The Dependence Parameter in Grammar: Morphology 'Without Borders'; Male Explorers & Eccentric Creatures: Identities in Mary Kingsley's 'Travels in West Africa'; Choice of Subordinates in Nonfinite & Verbless Adverbial Clauses in Four Written Genres of English; The Legace of Slave Narratives in Black Contemporary Women Writers; Virginia Woolf as Context, Text & Intertext in Janice Kulyk Keefer's 'Rest Harrow'; On Verbal Dynamicity, Markedness & Temporal Location; The Skramle Inscription: An Important Find with some Notes on the Older Runic Inscriptions; Pesticides & Pastorals: Constructing Metaphors in the 'Green Ballad'; On the Concept "Historical Juncture' in Linguistic Development & Analysis; He Took French Leave and Walked Spanish: Ethnic Prejudices Reflected in Language; What a Candidate for an Archbishoprick: Manmaking in Moby Dick; etc.