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description: A revisionist interpretation of Anglo-Saxon England. Nicholas Howe proposes that the Anglo-Saxons fashioned a myth out of the 5th-century migration of their Germanic ancestors to Britain. Through the retelling of this story the Anglo-Saxons ordered their complex history and identified their destiny as a people. Howe traces the migration myth throughout the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period in poems sermons letters and histories from the sixth to the eleventh centuries.
language: English
title: Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England
publisher: University of Notre Dame Press