Category: Anglo-Saxon poets

Although its author is unknown, its themes and subject matter are rooted in Germanic heroic poetry, in Anglo-Saxon tradition recited and cultivated by Old English poets called scops.

Category: Anglo-Saxon poets

Cædmon is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets identified in medieval sources, and one of only three for whom both roughly contemporary biographical information and examples of literary output have survived.

Late in his life, he became a student, lecturer, and, finally, a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, specializing in the works of the English novelists, Shakespeare, the Elizabethan sonneteers, Chaucer, and the Anglo-Saxon poets.

With his theory connecting musical notation with poetic meter, he developed a unique style of poetry written in logaoedic dactyls, which was strongly influenced by the works of his beloved Anglo-Saxon poets.

Two of the most heavily argued, for probable authorship, are the Anglo-Saxon Christian poets Caedmon and Cynewulf.

Anglo-Saxon poets made frequent use of epithets to achieve the desired alliteration, and had various other more complex rules and forms, though these have not been as popular in later poetry.

Cynewulf is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets known by name, and one of four whose work survives today.

This is the case with many English language terms where a dictionary entry will show that the etymology is French ( typically from the Norman Conquest onwards ) and not from Anglo-Saxon origins, but any distinction between Anglo-Saxon and Norman French etymology

Anglo-Saxon crosses were typically more slender, and often nearly square in section, though when, as with the Ruthwell Cross and Bewcastle Cross, they were geographically close to areas of the Celtic Church, they seem to have been larger, perhaps to meet local expectations, and the two 9th century Mercian Sandbach Crosses are the largest up to that period from anywhere.

Anglo-Saxon Charters are documents from the early medieval period in Britain which typically make a grant of land or record a privilege.

Anglo-Saxon Charters typically include a boundary clause written in Old English in a cursive script.

If so, then Wulf and Eadwacer is not typical, because most Old English loyalty crises occur within the family group … It is … true that romantic or sexual love was not the literary commonplace before the twelfth century it has been since ; other loves took precedence … The situation in Wulf and Eadwacer is far more typically Anglo-Saxon than as usually interpreted, if the speaker is understood to be the mother of the person she addresses as Wulf, as well as of the ‘ whelp ’ of line 16.

It is typically a three or four year degree, equivalent to the bachelor's degree in Anglo-Saxon countries.

Anglo-Saxon churches are typically high and narrow and consist of a nave and a narrower chancel ; these are often accompanied by a west tower.

Anglo-Saxon England is particularly notable as a shame culture, and this trait survived even after its conversion to Christianity, which is typically a guilt culture.

His appearance is typically depicted as a caricature of an Anglo-Saxon warrior.

In Coriolanus the agnomen of Marcius is used deliberately and pointedly, but the Homeric epithets and the Anglo-Saxon kennings are used casually and recall to the hearer `` a familiar story or situation or a useful or pleasant quality of the referent ''.

* Anglo-Saxon accounting, accounting methodology used in English-speaking countries-see Anglo-Saxon economy

Bede also followed Eusebius in taking the Acts of the Apostles as the model for the overall work: where Eusebius used the Acts as the theme for his description of the development of the church, Bede made it the model for his history of the Anglo-Saxon church.

Besides the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the medieval writers William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Geoffrey of Monmouth used his works as sources and inspirations.

These continental codes were all composed in Latin, whilst Anglo-Saxon was used for those of England, beginning with the Code of Ethelbert of Kent ( 602 ).

A Brythonic language was used in parts of Galicia and Asturias into early Medieval times brought by Britons fleeing the Anglo-Saxon invasions via Brittany.

In The Hobbit, the Anglo-Saxon futhorc was used in the publication with few changes ; in The Lord of the Rings a new system of runes, the Cirth, was devised.

In Anglo-Saxon England, as prescribed in Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England ( also called Læceboc ) ( many of whose recipes were borrowed from Greek medicinal texts ), dill was used in many traditional medicines, including medicines against jaundice, headache, boils, lack of appetite, stomach problems, nausea, liver problems, and much more.

Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary defines the noun unræd in various ways, though it seems always to have been used pejoratively.

The letter ð was used throughout the Anglo-Saxon era, but gradually fell out of use in Middle English, practically disappearing altogether by 1300 ; þ survived longer, ultimately being replaced by the modern digraph th by about 1500.

In modern times, " Heathen " and " Heathenry " are increasingly used to refer to those branches of Paganism inspired by the pre-Christian religions of the Germanic, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon peoples.

The system was first used in Wessex from the beginning of Anglo-Saxon settlement, and spread to most of the rest of England in the tenth century, along with West Saxon political control.

* Anglo-Saxon futhorc alphabet used in England

In England, in the Anglo-Saxon period, Shires were established as areas used for the raising of taxes, and usually had a fortified town at their centre.

" Anglo-Saxon " in linguistics is still used as a term for the original West Germanic component of the modern English language, which was later expanded and developed through the influence of Old Norse and Norman French, though linguists now more often refer to it as Old English.

In the 19th century the term " Anglo-Saxon " was broadly used in philology, and is sometimes so used at present.

James Anthony Froude, Charles Kingsley and Edward A. Freeman used the term " Anglo-Saxon " to justify racism and imperialism, claiming that the " Anglo-Saxon " ancestry of the English made them racially superior to the colonised peoples.

The term " Anglo-Saxon " is sometimes used to refer to peoples descended or associated in some way with the English ethnic group.

Outside Anglophone countries, both in Europe and in the rest of the world, the term " Anglo-Saxon " and its direct translations are used to refer to the Anglophone peoples and societies of Britain, the United States, and other countries such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand – areas which are sometimes referred to as the Anglosphere.

The Anglo-Saxon alliterative line and the Homeric hexameter probably imposed less of a restraint ; ;

Beowulf (; in Old English or ) is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.

With one notable exception ( Rhyming Poem ), Anglo-Saxon poetry depends on alliterative verse for its structure and any rhyme included is merely ornamental.

Just as rhyme was seen in some Anglo-Saxon poems ( e. g. The Rhyming Poem, and, to some degree, The Proverbs of Alfred ), the use of alliterative verse continued into Middle English.

Examples of Tolkien's alliterative verses include those written by him for the Rohirrim, a culture in The Lord of the Rings that borrowed many aspects from Anglo-Saxon culture.

The four poems, like a substantial portion of Anglo-Saxon poetry, are sculpted in alliterative verse.

The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue ( 1947 ; first UK edition, 1948 ) is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.

The collection shows signs of transition in verse form from the earlier Anglo-Saxon alliterative form to the new Norman rhyme form, for rhyme occasionally occurs in the poetry.

Rhyme is otherwise virtually unknown among Anglo-Saxon literature, which used alliterative verse instead.

To the study of English Ettmüller contributed by an alliterative translation of Beowulf ( 1840 ), an Anglo-Saxon chrestomathy entitled Engla and Seaxna scopas and boceras ( 1850 ), and a well-known Lexicon Anglo-Saxonicum ( 1851 ), in which the explanations and comments are given in Latin, but the words unfortunately are arranged according to their etymological affinity, and the letters according to phonetic relations.

The Vercelli Book comprises 135 folios which contain a group of twenty-three homilies, six works in Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse: Andreas, Address of the Soul to the Body, Falseness of Men, Dream of the Rood, two poems by Cynewulf, Elene and The Fates of the Apostles, and a prose Life of Guthlac.