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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I HAVE received very generous help from a number of
sources during the preparation of this paper. When the
aid received was a particular point of information I have
indicated my debt in a footnote; more extended support is
acknowledged here. The American Council of Learned
Societies granted me a Study Fellowship for the academic
year 1970-71 which gave me time for research on the
relations between literature and archaeology in the Anglo­
Saxon period. The Department of Scandinavian Studies
in University College London extended the hospitality of
an Honorary Research Fellowship for that year and
several members of that department gave unstintingly of
their time and advice. Mr John Townsend, Librarian of
the Scandinavian Studies Collection, took pains to locate
much out-of-the-way material for me, both at the
College and in the British Museum. Mr Richard Perkins
and Professor Peter Foote read through the text and
provided me with many useful references, while saving
me from error on more than one occasion. I am
especially grateful to Professor David Wilson. He first
introduced me to Anglo-Saxon archaeology and since the
time we first met in 1966, he has been unfailingly
generous with his time and knowledge. This paper could
not have been written without his help. Dr Bruce
Mitchell, Fellow of St Edmund Hall and University
Lecturer in English Language, Oxford University,
commented on the form and content of the paper, and
suggested many useful alterations, particularly with
regard to my interpretation of passages from Beowulf.
Mr Paul Lang, my former student at Cornell, now doing
postgraduate work at Harvard, provided translations of
materials in Swedish.