PPT-Beowulf Old English Literature

Few people read in this period Oral tradition was performed andor sung by a Bard Scop from memory in Old English This is why there are often several versions of the same story Scops. When? Where? Who?. We may say that . Beowulf. was composed somewhere in England between about 521 AD . and1026 . AD . We . do not know for sure where in England the poem was composed. . Nor . do we know if the poem was composed by a single author, or whether it is the result of the merging together of ballads by different authors, nor whether the poem was significantly altered subsequent to its first written form.. Alliteration. The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another. Often at the beginning of words. Increases poem’s rhythmic and musical effects. Makes a poem’s lines memorable. Beowulf: . Context Review. Composed in . England. by an . unknown Anglo-Saxon poet . (c. 750). Set in . Scandinavia. just . before Anglo-Saxon migration . (c. 520). Celts . reside in England during . Friedrich Nietzsche . “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.”. J. R. R. Tolkien. United Kingdom = England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland. Celts (Mother Goddess/Arthur). Romans (55 . BC. Julius Caesar). Angles and the Saxons . (Germanic). Jutes . 410-800. Danes. Anglo-Saxon life. Huh?. Why Study Beowulf?. So what?. It is the oldest piece of literature in the English language.. It is the earliest European epic writing in the vernacular, rather than in Latin.. It teaches us about the development of the English language.. Beowulf. (pg. 18 ). Beowulf. in Old English. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L7VTH8ii_8. Music Video. http. ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiBaSqO7n9U. The Monster Grendel. …. 1. What phrase points to Grendel’s evil nature?. Composed in Old English. Alliterative measure. Oral epic handed down. Archetypal tales of monsters, god-fashioned weapons, descents to the underworld, fights with dragons, and hero’s quest to save a community threatened by evil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH-_GwoO4xI. Opening lines to Beowulf in old English. . Figures of speech to remember: . 1. Kenning. 2. Epithet. 3. Alliteration. 4. Motifs: a motif can be seen as an image, sound, action or other figures that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the development of theme.. The Anglo-Saxon period is the earliest recorded time period in English history. . The Anglo-Saxon period ranges from 449-1066. . It ends with the Battle of Hastings where the French, under the leadership of William the Conqueror invaded England. . Geats. ?. Reading Strategy p38. What events preceded the dragon’s attack on the . Geats. ?. The theft of a gem-studded cup by someone who accidentally stumbles on the entrance to the stone tower. . The Anglo-Saxon period is the earliest recorded time period in English history. . The Anglo-Saxon period ranges from 449-1066. . It ends with the Battle of Hastings where the French, under the leadership of William the Conqueror invaded England. . Beowulf at the movies - 2007. Part of the treasure discovered in a ship-burial of c.500 at Sutton . Hoo. in East Anglia – excavated in 1939. . The Sutton Hoo ship and a modern reconstruction. The value of . Germanic tribes battled for control after causing the downfall of the Western Roman Empire (400s A.D.). Political, economic, cultural repercussions. Bloody warfare . . many G. ermanic tribes in Northern Europe left .