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Water and fire: The myth of the flood in Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN: 9781526129659
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Manchester University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History ; Language & Literature;

The story of Noah's Flood is one of the Bible's most popular stories, and other flood myths are preserved by cultures across the world. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the literary and historical imagination of the Anglo-Saxons, ranging from the works of Bede to Beowulf.

Daniel Anlezark is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of DurhamDaniel Anlezark is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Durham