Old English Literature
Anglo Saxon Invasion 5th 6th century AD. Germanic tribes from Scandinavia: the Angles, the
Saxons and the Jutes settle in what today is known as England and force the Celtic tribes to move to
Scotland, Ireland, Wales.
The Angles settled in Northumberland, East Anglia, Mercia; The Saxons in Essex, Sussex, Wessex
and the Jutes in Kent.
569 AD Pope Gregory the great sends missionaries led by St. Augustine to Britain. The Benedictines
establish a chain of monasteries; Britain is linked to the Latin civilization of the roman Church and
Christian cultures of Western Europe.
Aethelbert 1 of Kent becomes the first Christian King of England. By the end of the 7 th century all the
kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Britain accepted the Christian faith.
3.) Describe Old English Poetry in terms of form and content.
Old English poetry is highly formal.
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