Place-names, language and the Anglo-Saxon landscape
An exploration of the landscape of Anglo-Saxon England, particularly through the prism of place-names and what they can reveal. The landscape of modern England still bears the imprint of its Anglo-Saxon past. Villages and towns, fields, woods and forests, parishes and shires, al…
The essays in this volume explore the richness of the interactions between the Anglo-Saxons and their landscape: how they understood, described and exploited the environments of which they were a part. Subjects explored include the history of the study of place-names and the Ang…
An exploration of the landscape of Anglo-Saxon England, particularly through the prism of place-names and what they can reveal.
Women's names in Old English
by ProQuest (Firm), Okasha, Elisabeth
fromStudies in early medieval Britain
This book provides an in-depth study into the issue of vernacular names in Old English documents. Specifically it challenges the generally accepted notion that the sex of an individual is definitively indicated by the grammatical gender of their name. While modern scholars have …
