Group1 Old English Period
Group1 Old English Period
Group1 Old English Period
Linguistic
Example: Peter Piper Picked a Peck of
Pickled Peppers".
Example:
My cat likes to chase a mouse. Especially
one that's in the house
Beo w u l f
THE STORY OF BEOWULF: WHY
BEOWULF IS REGARDED AS A HERO?
Anglo Saxons loved war and bravery. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of
the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the aid of King Hroogar, the king of
the Danes, whose mead hall (in Heorot) has been under attack by a
monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf kills him, Grendel's mother
attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes
home to Geatland in Sweden and later becomes king of the Geats.
After a period of fifty years, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally
wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants bury him in a
tumulus, a burial mound, in Geatland. Therfore, he is regarded as hero.
Cynewulf’s Poems
Cynewulf wrote four poems: Juliana, The fates of the
Apostles, Christ and Elene. His poems are religious and
probably written in the later eight century.