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Old English Literature (500-1100)
Old English
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The Major Manuscripts
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The Exeter Book
Old English elegies' focus on loss, separation and the transience of earthly things.
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Beowulf
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Setting
Denmark, and sweden in the Sixth, Seventh Century.
Protagonist
Beowulf,Strong and courageous warrior from Scandinavia
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Structure two parts
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Beowulf, King of the Geats, kills a dragon but he dies too.
The Author
The author was an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, referred to by scholars as the “Beowulf poet
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Alfred the Great
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Anglo Saxons
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Language
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In England were Spoken
French (Nobility), Latin,English, Italian.
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