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Old English Literature book - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Preferred
        agricultural life
      - End of the sixth century, the Anglo-Saxons accepted Christianityafter Pope Gregory sent Saint Augustine to Britain in 597 AD
- - - - Generally Battles
        
        The Battle of Maldon" and
        "The Battle of Brunanburh".
      - works depict Anglo-Saxon resistance against the Vikings.
    - - Poems include "The Wanderer", "The Seafarer" and
        "The Ruin".
      - Other poems depict the separation of a man and a woman and the
        
        accompanying sadness, such as in "The Wife's Lament" and "The Husband's
        
        Message".
  - - - The work glorifies a hero and the values of bravery and generosity
      - Beowulf is an epic poem of over 3,000 verses
      - Incorporates both pagan and
        Christian ideas
      - sometimes seen as a conflict between good and evil.
      - set in Scandinavia around 500-600 AD - a time of battles and conquests
        by Germanic Anglo-Saxon tribes in Denmark and southern Sweden
- - - - compiled medical information, annals, chronicles, and information for law books
      - He translated many works from Latin
    - - poetry about victories over the
        Vikings
      - contains both prose and poetry.
    - - loosely imitated the rhythms
        of Old English poetry
      - wrote three cycles of forty homilies each
- - - - and pagan traditions;