British Literature
Old English Literature (449-1066) (Anglo Saxon)
The Early Settlers
· The Celts - river and town names, lifestyle primitive and crude(tahumatu)
· Julius Caesar 55 B.C - the Romans for more than 300 years
· 449 A.D - Jutes, Angles, Saxons - Germanic origin
· Angle-land=England
· Engleish, later Anglo-Saxon = Old English
Literature
· British literature begun in oral - by minstrels (laulik/poeet)
· songs and poems of heroes
· highest human qualities =bravery, honour, and loyalty to one's lord
· Venerable Bede (673-735) - "the father of English history" - Ecclesiastical History of
the English People 731 - in Latin
· Venerable - auväärt, kõrge auline
· Ecclesiastical -kiriklik, aulik
Beowulf
· the earliest English story-poem, pagan
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