About this Book

Ten papers from the 10th conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists held at the University of Helsinki in 2001. Contents: The landscape of Beowulf ( Margaret Gelling ); Sceaf, Japheth and the origins of the Anglo-Saxons ( Daniel Anlezark ); The Anglo-Saxons and the Goths: rewriting the sack of Rome ( M R Godden ); The Old English Bede and the construction of Anglo-Saxon authority ( Nicole Guenther Discenza ); Daniel, the Three Youths fragment and the transmisssion of Old English verse ( Paul G Remley ); An integrated re-examination of the dating of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11 ( Leslie Lockett ); Aelfric on the creation and fall of the angels ( Michael Fox ); The colophon of the Eadwig Gospels ( Richard Gameson ); Public penance in Anglo-Saxon England ( Brad Bedingfield ); The Bayeux Tapestry': invisible seams and visible boundaries ( Gale R Owen-Crocker ); Bibliography.