Saxons

1995. William Wallace is a Scottish knight and led the Wars of Scottish Independence. William and his Scottish warriors set out on a quest to seek their independence. In the movie Braveheart, William Wallace shows both epic and Anglo-Saxon hero criteria. Anglo-Saxon heroes are brave, loyal, generous, and show great friendship, while epic hero’s contain the qualities of being strong, ethical, having a quest, and being glorified. In the movie Braveheart, William Wallace showed his bravery in…

Alec Weisbrot Ms. Lovegren English IV The Exterer was created by Anglo Saxon poets. They created this manuscript with poems and religious verses inside. There are three poems that stand out and each has a shared theme. In “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and “The Wife’s Lament,” the Anglo Saxon poets exemplify the idea that life has only one true meaning and that meaning results in death. “The Seafarer” discusses the life of a man alone traveling the seas. It describes his loneliness and…

the epic poem, Beowulf, there were many instances where gifting giving took place. Gift giving symbolizes wealth and power in Anglo-Saxon history and translate in Beowulf in the same fashion. Throughout Beowulf, gift giving is a reoccurring theme happening multiples times to make apparent relationships, fulfilling the heroic code, and drawing parallels to Anglo-Saxon history. One of the most prevalent reasons of gift giving in Beowulf is to cement the alliances and relationships between…

“Enkidu feared that his friend was weakening And called out: Gilgamesh! Don’t trust him!” (Gig. 40-41). This leads Gilgamesh to killing Humbaba, and saving themselves because of each other’s loyalty. Loyalty is one of the most important parts in Anglo- Saxon society, which is shown through relationships between most of the…

about Anglo Saxon society and values. Beowulf is one of the oldest surviving long poem in the old english and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature. It was an oral poem many years ago and it has been forgotten about it until Jrr Tolkien brought it back in 1930, Then Robert Zemeckis created a visual in 2007. In the Beowulf movie and poem there are similarities and differences in Beowulf, The Geats and Danes, and Grendel, which reflects both Anglo saxon and…

Anglo-Saxon literature was centered around one common theme, exile. The exile in literature is often about the banning of a person from a place. Most writers in this time period wrote an elegy for the things they miss from their time before their exiled. Some writers were forced into exile by others for political reasons while others fled for their own safety. As seen in “The Seafarer”, “The Wanderer”, and “The Wife’s Lament” exile was a major anxiety in Anglo-Saxon literature as the threat…

were viewed as a nuisance to achieving Uniformity as an American Country, and were sought out and assimilated to try to fit in with the norm of society. This was done to ensure that cultural diversity would not become intergraded, so that the Anglo Saxon traditions would be the dominate example. To this day, cultural bias is still present, but should cultural assimilation be acceptable in this day and age. Heritage and tradition from other…

It is a puzzle why a poem would commemorate an Anglo-Saxon defeat at the hands of the Vikings. A defeat which led to the humiliation payment of 10000 pounds of silver to the Danes, the first of many which was raised by an unpopular tax. And therein lies the reason for the poem’s existence. While it can’t be dated exactly, it was written at a time when Viking invasions were common, leading to a Danish king on the throne of England, first Svein then Cnut. It concerns a deeply devout…

attention to the problem and wants others to stop it, while Cecil Rhodes feels that white people are the perfect race and that all countries should only be White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Cecil Rhodes had a very strong faith, one that not many believe in now, but he wanted to spread his faith everywhere. He wanted the race to be White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, or WASP for short. Rhodes felt that the English were above everyone else. This excluded Catholics and the Irish. Cecil wanted to…

The United States had a long tradition of expansion across the continent, but by the late 1800s, people started urging the U.S to start expanding overseas, following European’s model of imperialism. America’s actions in Cuba and the Philippines were the first steps in its quest to build an overseas empire. Many people say that for a complete explanation of U.S. actions in the 1890s, one would have to give equal weight to four motives: racism, nationalism, commercialism, and humanitarianism.…