Presentation about their history, culture, language

1. The Anglo-Saxons
Their History, Culture, Language, and
Literature

2. Fulfilled:Nysanbaev A.,
Baimen B.
Grade: 9 КӘ

3. Overview of Historical Events
 Ancient Britain
 Roman Britain
 Coming of the Anglo-Saxons – The English
language begins
 Anglo-Saxon Culture, Religion, and Social Order
 Beginning of the literary tradition
 Second Viking invasion

4. Arrival of the Anglo – Saxons
5th
Century A.D.
 Withdrawal of the Romans left the native Britons
vulnerable.
 Next 100 years – Britons were invaded by
seafaring, Germanic invaders.
 Three tribes known as Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
 Invasion forced natives to retreat to Wales.
 Old English Period begins in 449.

5. Anglo-Saxon Occupational Areas
 Angles- Northern and
Midland Sections –
Northumbria, Mercia, East
Anglia
 Saxons- Southern sections
– Wessex, Essex, Sussex
 Jutes- Southeastern
Province, which became
the kingdom of Kent
 Return

6. Weapons of War

7. Anglo-Saxon Culture
 A.S. brought legends about ancient German heroes and
kings.
 Warriors were celebrated in lays or songs sung at feasts
by a gleeman or scop.
 Lays accompanied by the harp or lyre.
 Songs composed orally – for entertainment, but also kept
history alive.
 Kings would entertain friends in mead halls, named for the
drink mead made from fermented honey.

8. Anglo-Saxon Religious Beliefs
(Before Christianity)
 A.S. were Pagans. Christianity of Roman times
kept alive only in remote regions.
 Every human life in the hands of fate.
 Worshipped ancient Norse gods: Tiu, god of war and the
sky; Woden (Odin), chief of the gods; and Fria (Freya),
Woden’s wife. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday
 Except the Irish – which had their own Celtic
pantheon.

9. A Typical Village

10. Anglo-Saxon Society
 Organized into a class of warriors known as earls or
thanes.
 These warriors protected and were devoted to the king,
who was chosen by a witan-
council of elders.
 There was also a class of freemen known
as churls.
 Slaves were known as thralls.
 Women, as “peace-weavers”

11. Return of Christianity
 All of England converted to Christianity upon the
arrival of Augustine in 597 A.D.
 Augustine began by converting King Ethelbert of
Kent.
 Rest of England soon followed.
 Monasteries built.
 By 731 A.D.-Christianity well-rooted

12. The Scribes
 In monasteries, scribes produced books by hand.
 Books were usually religious in nature.
 Focused on saints’ lives and sermons.
 There were also copies of the oral literature.
 Because of these Christian scribes, Anglo-Saxon
culture was recorded.
 “Father of English History” – the Venerable Bede,
a Northumbrian monk.