Old English literature is also referred to Anglo-Saxon literature. The Anglo-Saxons were settlers from Germany that originate from the names Angeln and Saxony. The Anglo-Saxon period lasted for 600 years, from 410 to 1066. They went to Britain after the fall of The Roman Empire, around AD 410. Roman armies were needed, so they left Britain in the fifth-century to fight for their land. The Anglo-Saxons were basically their own leaders in the new land and did not contribute much, or anything to keep the Roman legacy alive. The wooden buildings they had, used to be the Romans Stone buildings before they changed them, and their language, that rolls over to today's modern English. Religious beliefs were also converted, by St. Augustine in 597, to
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Later there were Viking Invasions and out of those four kingdoms only Wessex survived. Under the rule of King Alfred (Alfred The Great), led Anglo-Saxons against the Invading Danes. Once news came about that the Viking ruler of York had been killed by Wessex armies in 954, England was ruled over by one king. Anglo-Saxon rule, later in 1066 ended due to the death of Edward the Confessor with no heir to the throne. William of Normandy was said to be king by King Edward but since Harold Godwinson was more preferred as his successor he was crowned King. As he was crowned he did not protect his Kingdom, thus failed, in the invasion of William and his army crossing the Channel from France to be claimed. Normans had defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings in October 1066. The next era began and literature was later expanded, with Anglo-Saxon influencing all literature to come forth and …show more content…
Woden was an example of the Anglo-Saxons God, like the Scandinavian god Odin but a German version. Other gods like Thunor, Frige, and Tiw, gods of thunder, love and war were used and believed in. The Saxons were superstitious, they believed in charms for luck, and magical rhymes that can be portrayed as poems. They believed it would protect them from evils in the world and sicknesses. When they passed, some would either be cremated or buried into the grave with their possessions because it would be used for their next life and show the kind of life they had lived before. Once Romans left, Christianity was still used and also moved to other places that Anglo-Saxons had not settled on yet, like the west and Wales. In AD 597 the Pope of Rome decided to move Christianity and then there were only schools of monasteries, that's where monks and nuns prayed, studied and worked in shops. Monks had to copy books by hand and colored the pages and the covers. At Jarrow in Northumbria lived Bede, an English monk and historian, that lived from 673 through 735 AD. At age 7 in 680 AD he was living with the monks, and grew up to become the historian and wrote a book called ‘A History of the English Church and People’. He was called the Father of English History because he would always have credible sources and ask churches for all the documents and libraries for eyewitnesses to be as precise as possible. The way he was
Later there were Viking Invasions and out of those four kingdoms only Wessex survived. Under the rule of King Alfred (Alfred The Great), led Anglo-Saxons against the Invading Danes. Once news came about that the Viking ruler of York had been killed by Wessex armies in 954, England was ruled over by one king. Anglo-Saxon rule, later in 1066 ended due to the death of Edward the Confessor with no heir to the throne. William of Normandy was said to be king by King Edward but since Harold Godwinson was more preferred as his successor he was crowned King. As he was crowned he did not protect his Kingdom, thus failed, in the invasion of William and his army crossing the Channel from France to be claimed. Normans had defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings in October 1066. The next era began and literature was later expanded, with Anglo-Saxon influencing all literature to come forth and …show more content…
Woden was an example of the Anglo-Saxons God, like the Scandinavian god Odin but a German version. Other gods like Thunor, Frige, and Tiw, gods of thunder, love and war were used and believed in. The Saxons were superstitious, they believed in charms for luck, and magical rhymes that can be portrayed as poems. They believed it would protect them from evils in the world and sicknesses. When they passed, some would either be cremated or buried into the grave with their possessions because it would be used for their next life and show the kind of life they had lived before. Once Romans left, Christianity was still used and also moved to other places that Anglo-Saxons had not settled on yet, like the west and Wales. In AD 597 the Pope of Rome decided to move Christianity and then there were only schools of monasteries, that's where monks and nuns prayed, studied and worked in shops. Monks had to copy books by hand and colored the pages and the covers. At Jarrow in Northumbria lived Bede, an English monk and historian, that lived from 673 through 735 AD. At age 7 in 680 AD he was living with the monks, and grew up to become the historian and wrote a book called ‘A History of the English Church and People’. He was called the Father of English History because he would always have credible sources and ask churches for all the documents and libraries for eyewitnesses to be as precise as possible. The way he was