In this volume, the 'Junius Manuscript', one of the most important manuscripts surviving from pre-Conquest England receives penetrating analysis by several scholars.

List of illustrations; 1. Record of the tenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at the University of Helsinki, 6¿11 August 2001; 2. The landscape of Beowulf Margaret Gelling; 3. Sceaf, Japheth and the origins of the Anglo-Saxons Daniel Anlezark; 4. The Anglo-Saxons and the Goths: rewriting the sack of Rome M. R. Godden; 5. The Old English Bede and the construction of Anglo-Saxon authority Nicole Guenther Discenza; 6. Daniel, the Three Youths fragment and the transmission of Old English verse Paul G. Remley; 7. An integrated re-examination of the dating of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11 Leslie Lockett; 8. Ælfric on the creation and fall of the angels Michael Fox; 9. The colophon of the Eadwig Gospels Richard Gameson; 10. Public penance in Anglo-Saxon England Brad Bedingfield; 11. The Bayeux 'Tapestry': invisible seams and visible boundaries Gale R. Owen-Crocker; 12. Bibliography for 2001 Debby Banham, Carole P. Biggam, Mark Blackburn, Carole Hough, Simon Keynes, Paul G. Remley and Teresa Webber.