Abstract
Introduction, Jonathan Wilcox Byrhtnoth's laughter and the poetics of gesture, John D. Niles Grim wordplay - folly and wisdom in Anglo-Saxon humour , T.A. Shippey humour, wordplay, and semantic resonance in Beowulf, Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. heroic humour in Beowulf, E.L. Risden humour in hiding - laughter between sheets in the Exeter Book Riddles, D.K. Smith sexual humour and fettered desire in Exeter Book Riddle 12, Nina Rulon-Miller Why do you speak so much foolishness? gender, humour, and discourse in Aelfric's Lives of Saints, Shari Horner a funny thing happened on the way to heaven - humorous incongruity in Old English saints' lives, Hugh Magennis.
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