OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE

                   
                      OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE



Old English Literature or Anglo-Saxon literature, encomposses literature written in Old English, in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066.

The Angles, Jutes and Saxons were initially different tribes from continental Europe. The Angles came from an area in modern-day Germany called Angeln on the Jutland Peninsula. The Jutes, on the other hand, came from the northern part of the Jutland Peninsula and mainly settled in Kent. Finally the Saxons appear to have come from Holstein, just south of the Jutland Peninsula. They settled in the south of England, creating the kingdoms Wessex, Sussex, Essex and Middlesex.

So to sum up, the Angles, Jutes and Saxons all came from different areas of the continent and settled in different parts of modern-day England.

Celts are a peace-loving and agricultural people. They are an Indo-European people in Iron Age and Midieval Europe who spoke Celtic languages and had cultural similarities.

The Earl people are the high-ranking member of the British nobility. While the Churls are the people who are the peasant in the midieval period.



THE BEOWULF

Beowulf is an Old English epic story consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It maybe the oldest surviving story in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English Literature. The author was an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, reffered to by scholars as the "Beowulf  Author".


The story is set in Scandinavia. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorothas been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf go back to Geatland and later becomes the king of the Geats. After a period of 50 years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon but is mortally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants cremate his body and erects a tower on a headland in his memory.




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