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Feb 5th, 2010 | Filed under THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD

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Mourning their dead champion .the people of Jutland composed a dirge praising the great deeds of Beowulf who
       Of men was  the mildest  and most beloved ,
       To his kin the kindest,reared a mighty pile
       With shields and armour hung ,as he had asked
       And [...]

Dec 1st, 2009 | Filed under THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD

The closing part of the poem tells now one of Beowulf’s subjects stole some of the treasure which a firedrake had for three hundred years been guarding in a cavern.The enraged monster with his fiery breath laid waste the land.Beowulf sought the dragon in his cavern and after a terrible fight slew the monster,but was [...]

Dec 1st, 2009 | Filed under THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD

Finally Beowulf,with a grip like that of thirty men,tore away the arm and shoulder of the monster,who rushed out to the marshes to die.The next night a banquet was given in fateful Heorot in honor of the hero.After the feast ,the warriors slept in the hall,but Beowulf went to the place .He  had been gone [...]

Nov 28th, 2009 | Filed under THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD

This peom of 3182 lines dsecribes the deeds of the Teutonic hero Beowulf .Hrothgar ,the King of the Dances ,built a magnificent mead hall to which he gave the name of Heorot . While the Dance were eating and dringking their fill in this famous hall,Grendel , a monster half-human ,came from the moor ,burst [...]

Nov 25th, 2009 | Filed under THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD
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This poem of 3182 lines describes the deeds of the Teutonic hero Beowulf .Hrothgar,the King of the Danes, built a magnificent mead hall to which he gave the name of Heorot While the Danes were eating and drinking their fill in this famous hall,Grendel.a monster half-human ,came from the moo,burst in upon them.mangled theity warriors,and [...]

Nov 23rd, 2009 | Filed under THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD

The song of Beowulf can be justly thrmed England’s national epic and its hero Beowulf——one of the national heroes of the English people.
  The only existing manuscript of The Song of Beowulf was writen by an unknown scribe at the beginning of the 10th century and was not discovered until 1705.The Song  was compased much earlier, [...]

Nov 20th, 2009 | Filed under THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD
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The literature of this period falls maturally into two divisions——pagan and Christian.The fromer represents the poetry which the Anglo-Saxons probably brought with them in the form of oral sagas——the crude material out of which literature was slowly developed on English soil; the latter represents the writings developed under teaching of  the monks,After the old pagan [...]

Nov 20th, 2009 | Filed under THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD

After the fall of the Roman Emoir and the with,Bdrawal of Roman troops from Albion,the aboriginal Celtic population of the larger part of the island was soon conquered and almost totally exterminated by the teutonic tribes of Angles,Saxons and Jutes who came from the continent and settled in the siland,nameing its central part Anglia or [...]

Nov 20th, 2009 | Filed under THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD