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 E...