In 1897 Andrew Lang referred to Glámr, one of Iceland's most celebrated mediaeval ghosts,
as a “vampire” in his The Book of Dreams and Ghosts. This article examines the arguments …

Four complete medical collections survive from Anglo-Saxon England. These were first
edited by Oswald Cockayne in the nineteenth century and came to be known by the names …

The belief in the reality of demons and the restless dead formed a central facet of the
medieval worldview. Whether a pestilent-spreading corpse mobilised by the devil, a …

The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old
English heroic poem Beowulf. This meticulously researched book investigates the nature …

This article takes a semiotic and structuralist approach to understanding the characteristic
nightmare package of imagery, or image-constellation, which appears also in charms …

Throughout the recorded history of Britain, belief in earthbound spirits presiding over nature,
the home and human destiny has been a feature of successive cultures. From the localised …

Three early medieval Germanic languages—Old English, Old High German, and Old Norse—
contain related words for a supernatural female being: mære in Old English, mara in Old …

NIGHTMARES HAVE PLAGUED UNSUSPECTING sleepers throughout human history, and
this is no less true in Anglo-Saxon England. This chapter will examine the intersection of …

Abstract Marha-,'god'or 'guest', appears in a Palaic version of the Anatolian 'Disappearing
God'myth. It belongs with the Palaic verbs marh-and marhina-and perhaps the Luwian …

Old English poetry is centred on the concept of community and the importance of belonging.
Landscape was a component of any community since, during the period when Old English …