Article outline

• 6.1The corpus of wills
• 6.2Function and orality of wills
• 6.3Types of wills
• 6.4The protocol of wills
• 6.5Case study: Variation by subperiod and archive
  • 6.5.1Dispositive verbs
  • 6.5.2(ge)unnan + land objects
  • 6.5.3‘after my death’ adverbials
• 6.6Case study: Variation by gender
  • 6.6.1Soliciting patronage
  • 6.6.2Cursing
    • 6.6.2.1The curse of Cnut and Emma
• 6.7Case study: Sociolinguistic outliers
  • 6.7.1The will of Leofgifu
  • 6.7.2The will of Mantat
• 6.8Conclusions
• Notes