Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World: Volume III of The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World

280 Pages·2017·4.355 MB·English

by  Maren Clegg Hyer, Della Hooke (eds.)

EXETER STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
History, Society and the Arts
series editors
Simon Barton, Anthony Musson,
Yolanda Plumley and Oliver Creighton
Water and the Environment
in the Anglo-Saxon World
Volume III of
The Material Culture of Daily Living
in the Anglo-Saxon World
edited by
Maren Clegg Hyer and Della Hooke
with contributions by
Hal Dalwood†, Jill Frederick, Mark Gardiner, Della Hooke,
Rebecca Reynolds, Stephen Rippon, Martin Watts
and Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley

LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS
First published 2017 by
Liverpool University Press
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Liverpool
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© 2017 Liverpool University Press
The right of Maren Clegg Hyer and Della Hooke to be identified as editors of
this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs
and Patents Acts 1988.
No part of this volume may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or
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print ISBN 978 1 78694 028 5
epdf ISBN 978 1 78964 813 7
Typeset by Carnegie Book Production, Lancaster.
For all of the great fishermen in our lives, then and now.

In Memoriam: Hal Dalwood, colleague and friend

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
List of Tables xii
List of Contributors xiii
Introduction 1
Della Hooke and Maren Clegg Hyer
1 From Whale’s Road to Water under the Earth: Water in
Anglo-Saxon Poetry 15
Jill A. Frederick
2 Water in the Landscape: Charters, Laws and Place Names 33
Della Hooke
3 Fens and Frontiers 68
Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley
4 Marshlands and Other Wetlands 89
Stephen Rippon
5 Rivers, Wells and Springs in Anglo-Saxon England: Water
in Sacred and Mystical Contexts 107
Della Hooke
6 Food from the Water: Fishing 136
Rebecca Reynolds
viii Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World
7 Inland Waterways and Coastal Transport: Landing Places,
Canals and Bridges 152
Mark Gardiner
8 Watermills and Waterwheels 167
Martin Watts
9 Water, Wics and Burhs 187
Hal Dalwood†
Notes 202
Suggested Reading 238
Index 242