english beowulf and anglo saxon

made by cy

who is hrothgar?

king of denmark

king hrothgar built a great meah-hall, what is it called?

heorot

a horrible demon who

lives in the swamplands of Hrothgar’s kingdom and terrorizes the Danes every night,

killing them and defeating their efforts to fight back.

grendel

he is a young geatish warrior

beowulf

an envious dane taunts beowulf and accuses him of being unworthy of his reputation, who is he?

unferth

what did beowulf use to fight grendel?

his barehands

how did beowulf defeat grendel?

by ripping his arm off

what did they do to grendel’s arm?

hung it in the mead hall as a trophy

a swamp-hag who lives in a desolate lake,

comes to Heorot seeking revenge for her son’s death.

Grendels mother

one of

Hrothgar’s most trusted advisers,

aeschere

how many years did beowulf rule?

50 years

where did beowulf rule?

geatland

beowulfs last wish

they burn their

departed king’s body on a huge funeral pyre and then bury him with a massive treasure in a

barrow overlooking the sea.

Anglo - Saxon means?

Old english

Anglo - Saxon came from?

Northern Germany,
Denmark, Northern Holland  

JUTES

from the peninsula of jutland in denmark. Led by Hengst and Horsa

ANGELES

came from Angeln (modern germany). led by ida

how many years did the great mead hall “heorot” suffer?

12 years

hrothmund

second son opf hrothgar

hrothulf

hrothgars nephew

SAXONS

lower saxony (modern germany)

ANGLO SAXON IS?

The term used by historians to designate the invading Germanic tribes

earl

rulers/government

churl

servant/peasants

witan

wiseman

justice system

an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

myrd

fate

mead

honey wine

wergild

money

p[ope gregory the great

one of the six latin leaders

st. augustine

first archbishop of the canterbury, founder of english church

JUNUIS MANUSCRIPT

• CAEDMON MANUSCRIPT

• HAS THREE PARAPHRASES OF OLD TESTAMENT

EXETER BOOK

• AN ANTHOLOGY LOCATED IN EXETER CATHEDRAL

• 95 RIDDLES

• CHRIST, CHRIST I, CHRIST II, CHRIST III

VERCELLI BOOK

• POETRY AND PROSE

• (ANDREAS)SAINT ANDREWS JOURNEY TO RESCUE ST. MATTHEW

• (ELENE) ST. HELENA AND DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE CROSS

NOWELL CODEX

• POETRY AND PROSE

• CONTAINS BEOWULF

Oral tradition

poems and songs committed to memory and performed by, scops, bards, Gleemen, or minstrels

HEROIC tradition

celebrates heroes

ELEGIAC traditions

passing of earlier, better times

CHRISTIAN LITERATURE

1. Bede 

2. Caedmon

3. Cynewulf

4. Alfred the Great

Pagan and christian

1. Bede 

2. Caedmon

3. Cynewulf

4. Alfred the Great

Bede, the Venerable

• A monk, known as a man of great scholarship and learning

• The earliest historian of England and the earliest important prose writer

• “History of the English Church and People”

CAEDMON

• poor unlettered servant of the Abbess Hilda in her monastery at Whitby

• first to use old heroic verse form

• Made the first English poem

CYNEWULF

• Wandering scope of the pagan king

EPIC

• came from the greek word epikos

• long narrative poem

what is epikos?

a poetic story