Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England
Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England by Professor Nicholas Howe
English | 1989 | ISBN: 0300045123 | 198 Pages | PDF | 19.8 MB
English | 1989 | ISBN: 0300045123 | 198 Pages | PDF | 19.8 MB
A revisionist interpretation of Anglo-Saxon England. Nicholas Howe proposes that the Anglo-Saxons fashioned a myth out of the 5th-century migration of their Germanic ancestors to Britain. Through the retelling of this story, the Anglo-Saxons ordered their complex history and identified their destiny as a people. Howe traces the migration myth throughout the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period, in poems, sermons, letters and histories from the sixth to the eleventh centuries.