Medieval Cultures of the Irish Sea and the North Sea

Charles W. MacQuarrie is Professor of English at California State University (Bakersfield campus). He earned his PhD in English from the University of Washington. Joseph Falaky Nagy is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University. He earned his PhD in Celtic from Harvard and is formerly Professor at UCLA of English and Folklore & Mythology.

• Preface (Charles W. MacQuarrie, California State University, Bakersfield, and Joseph Falaky Nagy, Harvard University) Introduction: "Manannán and his Neighbors" (Charles W. MacQuarrie, California State University, Bakersfield) Chapter One: "Hiberno-Manx Coins in the Irish Sea" (Helen Davies, University of Rochester) Chapter Two: "Hunferth and Incitement in Beowulf" (M. Wendy Hennequin, Tennessee State University) Chapter Three: "Cú Chulainn Unbound" (Ron J. Popenhagen, California State University, Northridge) Chapter Four: "Ragnhild Eiríksdóttir: Cross-Cultural Sovereignty Motifs and Antifeminist Rhetoric in Chapter 9 of Orkneyinga saga" (Brian Cook, University of Mississippi) Chapter Five: "Statius' Dynamic Absence in the Narrative Frame of the Middle-Irish Togail na Tebe" (Stephen Kershner, Austin Peay State University) Chapter Six: "The Stanley Family and the Gawain Texts of the Percy Folio" (Rhonda Knight, Coker College), Chapter Seven: "Ancient Myths for the Modern Nation: Seamus Heaney's Beowulf" (Maria McGarrity, Long Island University, Brooklyn) Chapter Eight: "Kohlberg Explains Cú Chulainn: Developing Moral Judgment from Bully to Boy Wonder to Brave Warrior" (Ethel B. Bowden, Central Maine Community College) Chapter Nine: "Language Revival and Preservation: Contrasting Manx and Texas German" (Marc Pierce, University of Texas, Austin)