“…But developments in Germanic materials have been few and far between, with primary work on the metaphoric deep structure of Old English onomastics and riddles by Barley (1974a, b), as well as his work on nonverbal communication in Anglo-Saxon monasticism (1974c). There has been some work on the Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from the perspective of semiotics (Benzon 1977;Gertz, this issue), work on Old English elegiac poetry (Foley 1983), the Tristan legend (Hutchison 1977), and Old English charms (Nöth 1977). Gillian Overing's fascinating study of Beowulf (1985) uses the perspectives offered by the Peircean concept of indexicality.…”