Laudator Temporis Acti

Beowulf & Other Stories: A New Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures. Edited by Richard North and Joe Allard (London: Routledge, 2007), p. 87:

But it is tempting to associate this heroic tale of one woman’s stand against an invading would-be rapist with the circumstances surroung the successive waves of Viking raiders who scoured and spoiled and eventually settled great swathes of Anglo-Saxon England from 793 until the generation after the Beowulf manuscript was written, when indeed Anglo-Saxon England was ruled by the Danish King Cnut.

For surroung read surrounding.

Id., p. 165:

The chant was based on The Book of Isaiah, chapter 9, verse 6, in whose Latin the last phase is magni consilii Angelus. In The Dream, the Tree of Life, spanning the universe, is looked on by ‘holy spirits, men on earth and all this glorious creation’. Now this phase is a clear reminiscence of a New Testament text, St Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, chapter 2, verse 10, which says that, when God exalted Christ who had been obedient unto death, ‘at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, on heaven and on earth and under the earth’.

For both instances of phase read phrase.

Id., p. 172:

Similar cosmic imagery lies behind the celebration of Christmas on 25 December, the Winter Solstice in the Roman calendar and the ancient Mithradatic Roman feast of Sol Invictus, the unconquered Sun: at the darkest time of the year, Christ the ‘Light of the World’ was seen to make a triumphal entry into the world where darkness had reigned up to then.

For Mithradatic read Mithraic.

Id., pp. 210-211:

At Whitby, Cædmon’s initial tests concerned the versification of ‘discourse relating to sacred history or doctrine’ (quaedam sacrae historiae sive doctinae sermo). Entering the monastery, Hild had Cædmon instructed in the cycle of sacred history (iussutque illum seriem sacrae historiae doceri), from Creation to Judgement.

For doctinae read doctrinae, and for iussutque read iussitque.

Id., p. 418:

Edgar was King Alfred’s great-grandson and in due course he became known as ‘the Peacemaker’(Pacifus).

For Pacifus read Pacificus.

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