Anglo-Saxon Keywords

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"It is accessible to newcomers, while offering new perspectives and concise summations of scholarship for researchers. The book is strewn with valuable insights on almost every page. The compact nature of the discussions inevitably leaves the reader with more questions than answers, but this serves well to excite further interest and to stimulate creative, dynamic engagement with the topics." (Speculum, 1 January 2015) "Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty." (Choice, 1 November 2012)"This is much more than a select dictionary or encyclopedia.Frantzen explores and evaluates terms that are constantly used ofAnglo-Saxon culture, in a way that first defamiliarizes what wemight think they mean and then refamiliarizes us with their depthand importance. The alphabetical ordering is semantically random,but that makes this the most compellingly readable list I think Ishall ever encounter."-- John Hines, Cardiff University "A virtual cornucopia, including details on such mundanities asdiet, hair styles, and the multitudinous terms for sexualintercourse, Frantzen's Anglo-Saxon Keywords is a celebration andvalidation of the rich cultural complexity of the Anglo-Saxons.""--Robert Bjork, Arizona State University