Bruce Mitchell is Fellow Emeritus at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. His many publications include
An Invitation to Old English and Anglo-Saxon England (Blackwell, 1994).
Fred C. Robinson is Douglas Tracy Smith Emeritus Professor of English at Yale University. His books include The Tomb of Beowulf, and Other Essays on Old English (Blackwell, 1993).
The sixth edition of Mitchell and Robinson's A Guide to Old English was published by Blackwell in 2001.