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WhatsApp Image 2022-01-14 at 18.53.23 Rebuilding of an Anglo Saxon…
Rebuilding of an Anglo Saxon hall which is situated in Hampshire (English county pretty near to London).
those in the center of the villages
decorated with carvings and paintings
Who were the Anglo-Saxons?
They were 3 Germanic tribes (The Angles, Saxons and Jutes) who arrived in England (called Britain) between the 5th and the 6th centuries.
How was their social life?
family groups - clans
farmers & deep-sea fishermen
runic alphabet
short senteces
different tribes = different dialects
Old English
the Saxon genitive
Anglo-Saxon Literature
it includes different genres
poetry, elegies, chronicles, riddles, translations of the Bible from Latin , stories about the lives of saints and sermons
anonymous and oral
the "SCOP" entertained the noblemen, also with an harp
by the 11th century, church scribes wrote it down
most important aspects of Anglo-Saxon poetry
alliteration
the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in consecutive words
stress
the lines were divided into two halves by a break (caesura) and had 4 stresses
kenning
formulaic metaphorical phrase used in place of a name or noun
BEOWULF
EPIC POEM
the word 'epic'
from the Greek noun épos
'oral exposition'
most famous epic poems
Iliad and Odyssey
by the Greek poet Homer
long narrative
about the recollection of a glorious past in the history of a nation
an aristocratic and military society
brave deeds of a hero
presents the same type-scenes
banquets, battles, voyages, funerals
has
elevated style
rich and vivid vocabulary
word
cases
like in Latin and German
sounded like German
worshipped a lot of gods
monk Augustine
Christianity back to England
bonds
loyalty to the others
built near to streams or rivers
made of wood
Rebuilding of an Anglo Saxon hall which is situated in Hampshire (English county pretty near to London).