Abstract
This study examines the motif in early medieval Irish literature of a sentinel warrior, buried near a territorial boundary, facing enemy territory to protect his people/territory against that enemy. Since there is not to date any physical manifestation of this type of burial in early medieval Ireland, a possible source for the motif in early Irish authors may lie in an awareness of early Anglo-Saxon contexts, and to this end several possible archaeological examples of such burials located on territorial boundaries in seventh-century Anglo-Saxon England are adduced.
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