EXETER STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE History, Society and the Arts series editors Simon Barton, Anthony Musson, Yolanda Plumley and Oliver Creighton Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World Volume III of The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World edited by Maren Clegg Hyer and Della Hooke with contributions by Hal Dalwood†, Jill Frederick, Mark Gardiner, Della Hooke, Rebecca Reynolds, Stephen Rippon, Martin Watts and Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS First published 2017 by Liverpool University Press 4 Cambridge Street Liverpool L69 7ZU © 2017 Liverpool University Press The right of Maren Clegg Hyer and Della Hooke to be identified as editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Acts 1988. No part of this volume may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior written permission of the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A British Library CIP record is available print ISBN 978 1 78694 028 5 epdf ISBN 978 1 78964 813 7 Typeset by Carnegie Book Production, Lancaster. For all of the great fishermen in our lives, then and now. In Memoriam: Hal Dalwood, colleague and friend Contents List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xii List of Contributors xiii Introduction 1 Della Hooke and Maren Clegg Hyer 1 From Whale’s Road to Water under the Earth: Water in Anglo-Saxon Poetry 15 Jill A. Frederick 2 Water in the Landscape: Charters, Laws and Place Names 33 Della Hooke 3 Fens and Frontiers 68 Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley 4 Marshlands and Other Wetlands 89 Stephen Rippon 5 Rivers, Wells and Springs in Anglo-Saxon England: Water in Sacred and Mystical Contexts 107 Della Hooke 6 Food from the Water: Fishing 136 Rebecca Reynolds viii Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World 7 Inland Waterways and Coastal Transport: Landing Places, Canals and Bridges 152 Mark Gardiner 8 Watermills and Waterwheels 167 Martin Watts 9 Water, Wics and Burhs 187 Hal Dalwood† Notes 202 Suggested Reading 238 Index 242