List of Illustrations

Grendel by Russell Marks. © Russell Marks. All rights reserved.

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Grendel’s mother by Russell Marks. © Russell Marks. All rights reserved.

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Figure 1.

Pommel of the Gilling West Sword. © York Museums Trust, https://yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Figure 2.

The Langeid Sword. © Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway, CC BY-SA 4.

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Figure 3.

Grave-Marker from Lindisfarne. © Historic England Archive.

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Figure 4.

The Gosforth Cross as Drawn by W. G. Collingwood.Order of faces from left to right: south, west, north, east. (Source: W. G. Collingwood, Northumbrian Crosses of the Pre-Norman Age (London, 1927, rpt. Felinfach, 1989), 156, fig. 184). Image courtesy of Archaeology in Europe.

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Figure 5.

Sword-Pommel from the Bedale Hoard. Image courtesy of York Museums Trust, http://yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Figure 6.

Reconstruction of the Benty Grange Helmet. © Museums Sheffield. All rights reserved.

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