How do Old English texts, composed over a millennium ago, imagine and represent the nature of a shared ecosphere? Though the period of English literature from the 7th through the 12th centuries has its share of super-heroics, what we’ll read together explores the charged links among human and nonhuman creatures, and with the woodlands, bogs, and waters in which they coexist. Riddles, charms, lyrics, ritual performances, and out-of-body experiences witness the traditional knowledge and wild ingenuity that collaborate to form the lively landscape of the word-made nature of Old English.
