Record of the fourteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Memorial University, St John’s, Newfoundland, 26–31 July 2009

Dan Donoghue, Harvard University, Reading Old English Poems with the Help of Cognitive Sciences Carole Hough, University of Glasgow, Metaphors from Old English Antonina Harbus, Macquarie University, The Maritime Imagination and the Paradoxical Mind in Old English Poetry Damian Fleming, Indiana University- Purdue University Fort Wayne, Hebrew Alphabets from Across the Sea Gaby Waxenberger, University of Munich, The Franks Casket in the Context of Runic Culture Bryan Carella, Assumption College, Worcester, A Hiberno- Latin Context for the Prologue to the Laws of Alfred Miranda Wilcox, Brigham Young University, Tents and Ships in Exodus, Bede, and Arator Peter Dendle, Penn State University, Demons of the Water: Anglo- Saxon Responses to the Gerasene Demoniac Rosalind Love, University of Cambridge, Metaphora a mari ad saeculum. Glossing The Consolation of Philosophy in Anglo- Saxon England Mercedes Salvador- Bello, Universidad de Sevilla, The Obscene Category in Anglo- Latin Riddling Tradition Tom Bredehoft, West Virginia University, Newfoundlands Old Hag and Anglo- Saxon Folklore 1 The 2009 conference of the International Society of Anglo- Saxonists Lisa Weston, California State University, Fresno, Sailing Seas of Ink: the Psychogeography of the Literate Imagination John Hines, University of Cardi, Wessex and the Western Seas Martin Foys, Drew University, Of Yrlande mid scyphere: the Irish Sea Raids of King Harolds Sons, and the Redoubling of History John Baker, Nottingham University, From Ocean to Oxford: Anglo- Saxon Control of Waterborne Threats Fabienne Michelet, Toronto, Sea- crossings and Memory in Old English poetry Johanna Kramer, University of Missouri, The Sea of this Life in Cynewulfs Christ II Phyllis Portnoy, University of Manitoba, Biblical Seafaring in Anglo- Saxon Verse: Pictorial Poetics Sarah Larratt Keefer, Trent University, Anglo- Saxon Liturgy and the Sea John Niles, University of Wisconsin, Madison, What Was the Exeter Book For? Vernacular Minuscule in the Reigns of Harold, Harthacnut, and the Confessor Donald Scragg, University of Manchester, The Rise and Fall of Standard Old English Patrick Conner, West Virginia University, A Material Approach to the Matched Scribal Hand(s) in the Exeter Book Karen Louise Jolly, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Excavating an Insular Manuscripts History: Durham A.IV.19 Matthew Hussey, Simon Fraser University, Scribal Habits and the Aesthetics of the Scruy Jonathan Wilcox, University of Iowa, A Material Se