Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Between Myth and Reality: Hunter and Prey in Early Anglo-Saxon Art
- 2 ‘(Swinger of) the Serpent of Wounds’: Swords and Snakes in the Viking Mind
- 3 Wreoþenhilt ond wyrmfah: Confronting Serpents in Beowulf and Beyond
- 4 The Ravens on the Lejre Throne: Avian Identifiers, Odin at Home, Farm Ravens
- 5 Beowulf’s Blithe-Hearted Raven
- 6 Do Anglo-Saxons Dream of Exotic Sheep?
- 7 You Sexy Beast: The Pig in a Villa in Vandalic North Africa, and Boar-Cults in Old Germanic Heathendom
- 8 ‘For the Sake of Bravado in the Wilderness’: Confronting the Bestial in Anglo-Saxon Warfare
- 9 Where the Wild Things Are in Old English Poetry
- 10 Entomological Etymologies: Creepy-Crawlies in English Place-Names
- 11 Beasts, Birds and Other Creatures in Pre-Conquest Charters and Place-Names in England
- Index
- Anglo-Saxon Studies
List of Abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Between Myth and Reality: Hunter and Prey in Early Anglo-Saxon Art
- 2 ‘(Swinger of) the Serpent of Wounds’: Swords and Snakes in the Viking Mind
- 3 Wreoþenhilt ond wyrmfah: Confronting Serpents in Beowulf and Beyond
- 4 The Ravens on the Lejre Throne: Avian Identifiers, Odin at Home, Farm Ravens
- 5 Beowulf’s Blithe-Hearted Raven
- 6 Do Anglo-Saxons Dream of Exotic Sheep?
- 7 You Sexy Beast: The Pig in a Villa in Vandalic North Africa, and Boar-Cults in Old Germanic Heathendom
- 8 ‘For the Sake of Bravado in the Wilderness’: Confronting the Bestial in Anglo-Saxon Warfare
- 9 Where the Wild Things Are in Old English Poetry
- 10 Entomological Etymologies: Creepy-Crawlies in English Place-Names
- 11 Beasts, Birds and Other Creatures in Pre-Conquest Charters and Place-Names in England
- Index
- Anglo-Saxon Studies
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2015