Water and fire: The myth of the flood in Anglo-Saxon EnglandNoah's Flood is one of the Bible's most popular stories, and flood myths survive in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the Anglo Saxon imagination. Focusing on literary representations, it contributes to our understanding of how Christian Anglo Saxons perceived their place in the cosmos. For them, history unfolded between the primeval Deluge and a future perhaps