Borders, Burials, and the Extended Mind in Early Medieval England: &lt;i&gt;Genesis A&lt;/i&gt; and Apple Down
Journal: Open Library of Humanities
Year: 2023

This article begins by considering the re-presentation of the Biblical landscape of the Binding of Isaac in the Old English text Genesis A. With reference to place-names, landscapes, and other texts, it demonstrates how this setting was presented as a place of cremation on a hilltop border. The poem may, for audiences living in the generations following the cessation of cremation burial, have served as a means of understanding earlier religious praxis. The article then considers a similar moment