ANGLOSAXONS LITERATURE

until 11th century

works of clerks

wrote down the oral thing

oral literature

recited an official bard

who entratein the nobel men in the hall

very important

bards

common cultural identity

lines

from mounth to mounth

important aspect

other imporatnts features

poetry

compositions

two complentaries modes

epic

elegiac

anonymus

amanuensis wrote this down

poetry

alliteration

stress

divided

two halves

repetition of the same conosnant sound

very musical

stock sentences or formula

stress and alliteretion

no musical but help to memorize the poem

kennings

easy to rember ->frequency

a sort of riddle

riddles

frequent occurence of words

king

warriors

hero

familiar things in an unfamiliar way

first person speaker

prose

relationship between men and women

no popular

knowledge of latin

the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

record events

English to Christianity up to 1154