Henk Aertsen (born 1943,

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) is a now-retired professor of

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and

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language and literature at the

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. He is the editor (with Alasdair MacDonald) of ''Companion to Middle English Romance'' (Amsterdam, VU Press, 1990), and (with

Rolf Bremmer Rolf Hendrik Bremmer Jr (born 13 August 1950, Zwolle) is a Dutch academic. He is professor of Old and Middle English, and extraordinary professor of Old Frisian, at Leiden University. Biography Rolf Bremmer's father, also named Rolf Hendrik Brem ...

) of ''Companion to Old English Poetry'' (Amsterdam: VU Press, 1994).

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Aertsen at the VU
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aertsen, Henk 1943 births Living people Anglo-Saxon studies scholars Linguists from the Netherlands Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam People from Enkhuizen