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Basilisks and Beowulf: Monsters in the Anglo-Saxon World

Tim Flight

3.8 AVERAGE

winnieaxworthy's review

4.5

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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This book is a very good introduction to Anglo-Saxon monsters and gives a very compelling discussion of the Anglo-Saxon mindset. Flight dissects the Anflo-Saxons' attitudes towards wildernesses and monsters, and explains the reason for the existence of them in the social system of the Anglo-Saxons. He also draws parallels with the modern day and shows the reader how the mentalities that were present in the 9th century are very much still present in our society, just wearing a different guise. 

traveling_in_books's review

3.25

informative medium-paced