Godfrid Storms

Godfrid Storms, known as "Frits", was born in Sittard, Netherlands, on 4 May 1911.{{sfn|Knipselkrant}} He was educated at Radboud University Nijmegen where he had Aurelius Pompen as his doctoral adviser, and on 4 June 1948 successfully defended his dissertation.{{sfn|Storms|1948|pp=IV–V}}{{sfn|Magoun|1953|p=203}}

In 1956 Storms became a Professor of Old and Middle English Literature, also at Radboud University.{{sfn|Thorpe|1970|p=1}} During his time there he published many articles on the subject, notably The Subjectivity of the Style of Beowulf and Grammatical Expressions of Emotiveness.{{sfn|Thorpe|1970|p=1}}{{sfn|Storms|1963}} Other articles also took the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf as a subject,{{sfn|Storms|1957a}}{{sfn|Storms|1959}}{{sfn|Storms|1999}} and another the Sutton Hoo ship-burial discovered in Suffolk in 1939.{{sfn|Storms|1978}} Among the doctoral students that Storm promoted was W. J. M. Bronzwaer (nl), in 1970,{{sfn|Bronzwaer|1970|p=IV}} a year after Storms had visited the University of Nottingham as part of an exchange program between it and Radboud.{{sfn|Thorpe|1970|p=1}}

Storms continued to be known for Anglo-Saxon Magic,{{sfn|Thorpe|1970|p=1}} his 1948 dissertation which was soon thereafter published.{{sfn|Magoun|1953|p=203}} The work comprised an anthropological and psychological discussion of "magic" as understood by the Anglo-Saxons, and a discussion of 86 Anglo-Saxon charms in Old English and Latin.{{sfn|Magoun|1953|pp=203–204}} A lengthy review by the Harvard Anglo-Saxonist Francis Peabody Magoun called it an "interesting and important" work that would supersede a work published by Felix Grendon in 1909.{{sfn|Magoun|1953|p=203}} "All students of the Anglo-Saxon charms," wrote Magoun Jr., "will be grateful to Dr Storms for his edition, in all respects an advance on Grendon's once important study."{{sfn|Magoun|1953|p=212}}

Storms had a wife, Gré Wilmink, as well as children, grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.{{sfn|Knipselkrant}} His wife died before him; he himself died on 20 October 2003, at the age of 92, in Nijmegen.{{sfn|Knipselkrant}}

• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1947 | title = An Anglo-Saxon Prescription from the Lacnunga | journal = English Studies | volume = XXVIII | issue = 1–6| pages = 33–41 | doi = 10.1080/00138384708596781 }} {{closed access}}
• Correction: {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1947 | title = Notes and News | journal = English Studies | volume = XXVIII | issue = 1–6| page = 80 | doi = 10.1080/00138384708596789 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite thesis | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1948 | title = Anglo-Saxon Magic | type = Ph.D. | publisher = Centrale drukkerij N.V. | location = Nijmegen | url = http://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/2066/107198/mmubn000001_083072098.pdf?sequence=1 }} {{free access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1951 | title = Brief Mention | journal = English Studies | volume = XXXII | issue = 1–6| page = 141 | doi = 10.1080/00138385108596871 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1952 | title = The Middle English Dictionary | journal = English Studies | volume = XXXIII | pages = 257–259 | doi = 10.1080/00138385208596887 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1956 | title = The Weakening of O.E. Unstressed i to e and the Date of Cynewulf | journal = English Studies | volume = XXXVII | issue = 1–6| pages = 104–110 | doi = 10.1080/00138385608596971 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite book | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | title = Compounded Names of Peoples in Beowulf: A Study in the Diction of a Great Poet | date = 1957a | publisher = Dekker en van de Vegt | location = Nijmegen }}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1957b | title = Brief Mention | journal = English Studies | volume = XXXVIII | issue = 1–6| pages = 286–287 | doi = 10.1080/00138385708597005 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1958 | title = Brief Mention | journal = English Studies | volume = XXXIX | issue = 1–6| page = 237 | doi = 10.1080/00138385808597022 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1959 | title = The figure of Beowulf in the O.E. Epic | journal = English Studies | volume = XX | issue = 1–6| pages = 3–13 | doi = 10.1080/00138385908597026 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1960 | title = A note on Chaucer's pronunciation of French u | journal = English Studies | volume = XLI | pages = 305–308 | doi = 10.1080/00138386008597088 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1961 | title = Review: The Proverbs of Alfred | journal = English Studies | volume = XLII | pages = 28–30 | doi = 10.1080/00138386108597106 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1961 | title = Ne say Þu hit Þin are3e PA(T) 204 | journal = English Studies | volume = XLII | pages = 304–305 | doi = 10.1080/00138386108597107 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite book | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | editor-last = Greenfield | editor-first = Stanley B. | title = Studies in Old English Literature in Honor of Arthur G. Brodeur | date = 1963 | publisher = University of Oregon Books | location = Eugene, Oregon | pages = 171–186 | chapter = The Subjectivity of the Style of Beowulf }}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1964 | title = The Subjective and the Objective Form in Mdn English | journal = English Studies | volume = XLV | issue = 1–6| pages = 57–63 | doi = 10.1080/00138386408597187 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1966 | title = Brief Mention | journal = English Studies | volume = XLVII | issue = 1–6| page = 86 | doi = 10.1080/00138386608597267 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1966 | title = That-clauses in Modern English | journal = English Studies | volume = XLVII | pages = 249–270 | doi = 10.1080/00138386608597258 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1 September 1970 | title = The Significance of Hygelac's Raid | journal = Nottingham Medieval Studies| publisher = University of Nottingham | volume = XIV | pages = 3–26 | doi = 10.1484/J.NMS.3.44 }}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1972 | title = Grendel the Terrible | journal = Neuphilologische Mitteilungen | publisher = Modern Language Society of Helsinki | volume = LXXIII | issue = 1/3 | pages = 427–436 | jstor = 43345373 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1974 | title = The Author of Beowulf | journal = Neuphilologische Mitteilungen | publisher = Modern Language Society of Helsinki | volume = LXXV | issue = 1 | pages = 11–39 | jstor = 43345488 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1975 | title = Chaucers Verhaal van de Molenaar | journal = Handelingen van het Nederlands Filologencongres | volume = 33 | pages = 1–12 }}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1977 | title = Notes on Old English Poetry | journal = Neophilologus | publisher = University of Nottingham | volume = 61 | issue = 3| pages = 439–442 | doi = 10.1007/BF01513853 }} {{free access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1978 | title = The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial: An Interpretation | journal = Berichten van de Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek | volume = 28 | pages = 309–344 }}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 1999 | title = How did the Dene and the Geatas get into Beowulf? | journal = English Studies | volume = LXXX | issue = 1 | pages = 46–49 | doi = 10.1080/00138389908599164 }} {{closed access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | date = 2002 | title = Review: Beowulf: A New Translation | journal = English Studies | volume = LXXXIII | issue = 2 | pages = 176–177 | doi = 10.1076/enst.83.2.166.9557 }} {{closed access}}
• Republished as {{cite book | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | editor1-last = Schulman | editor1-first = Jana K. | editor2-last = Szarmach | editor2-first = Paul E. | title = Beowulf at Kalamazoo: Essays on Translation and Performance | date = 2012 | publisher = Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University | location = Kalamazoo | pages = 374–375 | chapter = Review: Beowulf: A New Translation | isbn = 978-1-58044-152-0 | name-list-style = amp }}
• {{cite book | last = Storms | first = Godfrid | editor1-last = Schulman | editor1-first = Jana K. | editor2-last = Szarmach | editor2-first = Paul E. | title = Beowulf at Kalamazoo: Essays on Translation and Performance | date = 2012 | publisher = Medieval Institute Publications | location = Kalamazoo, Michigan | chapter = Review: Beowulf: A New Translation | isbn = 978-1-58044-152-0 }}

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• {{cite thesis | last = Bronzwaer | first = W. J. M. | date = 1970 | title = Tense in the Novel: An Investigation of Some Potentialities of Linguistic Criticism| type = Ph.D. | publisher = Wolters-Noordhoff Publishing | location = Groningen | url = http://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/2066/148640/mmubn000001_154021156.pdf?sequence=1 }} {{free access}}
• {{cite web | ref = {{harvid|Knipselkrant}} | title = Frits Storms is overleden | website = Knipselkrant: een selectie met nieuwtjes en wetenswaardigheden uit en over Ameland (jaargang 2003 en 2004) | url = http://home.planet.nl/~kuhlm026/nieuws/nieuws20032004.htm#Storms | access-date = 13 November 2017 }}
• {{cite journal | last = Magoun | first = Francis P. Jr.| author-link = Francis Peabody Magoun | date = January 1953 | title = Anglo-Saxon Magic by Godfrid Storms | journal = Speculum | publisher = The University of Chicago Press | volume = XXIII | issue = 1 | pages = 203–212 | doi = 10.2307/2847219| jstor = 2847219 }} {{free access}}
• {{cite journal | last = Thorpe | first = Lewis | author-link = Lewis Thorpe | date = 1 September 1970 | title = Editorial | journal = Nottingham Medieval Studies | publisher = University of Nottingham | volume = XIV | pages = 1–2 | url = https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/pdf/10.5555/J.NMS.6.81760487060202840476740102030506 }} {{free access}}

• Three photographs at: {{cite web | title = Storms, Godfrid | website = Memory of the Netherlands | publisher = National Library of the Netherlands | url = http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/en/geheugen/results?query=%22Storms%2C+Godfrid%22&page=1&maxperpage=36&coll=ngvn | access-date = 20 March 2018 }}

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