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Anglo-Saxons & Beowulf (British Literature)
1. The Anglo-Saxons
(c. 450 – 1066)
Beowulf
(Epic Poem - c. 700-750)
British Literature I
Anglo-Saxon through 18th Century
Colin Shanafelt
Professor of English
Austin, Texas
www.ColinShanafelt.com
5. Anglo-Saxon Period
Timeline
Christianity Spreads
400-699 CE
Roman Occupation
55 BCE - 409 CE
Anglo-Saxon Invasion
449 CE
Norman Invasion
1066 CE
King Alfred vs. Danes
870 CE
Celts in Britain
300s BCE
300 BCE 500 CE 1200 CE
6. Historical England
(Romans - Normans)
• The island we know as England was invaded by two
groups of people:
– Celts: known as Bythons (now spelled Britons)
– Gaels: settled Ireland
Timeline
• Celts (Brythons and Gaels): up to 55 BCE
• Roman Conquest: 55 BCE - 407 CE
• Anglo-Saxon Period: 407 - 787
• Viking Invasions: 787 - 1066
• Norman Conquest begins in: 1066 A.D.
7. Celts
800 BCE
• Iron Age farming society who were largely peaceful; highly
creative; tall in stature and fair in complexion; and ruled by
skilled administrative kings.
• From areas in present-day France, Belgium, and S. Germany,
the Celts moved to England to escape more war-like tribes
raiding from the east
• Farmers: used ploughs and embanked square fields to grow
oats, rye, barley, and corn. Farming creates civilization.
• Wore jewelry, brightly colored clothes (loved red), and leather
sandals and shoes
• Pagans whose religion was known as animism (animus= Latin
word for “spirit.”)
• Druids: wise Celtic spiritual learners; mediated clan disputes.
• Lived in round thatch huts; built fortified forts with turf and
stone ramparts
• Formidable warriors who wore NO armor; dyed entire bodies
before battle, fought with iron swords, daggers, and two-
wheeled chariots.
8. Romans
c. 43 – 407
• Julius Caesar invades Britain (55 BCE)
• Occupation completed by Claudius in 1st Century A.D.
• Rome eventually defeated the Celts and integrated
Britain into the Roman Empire .
• London: Rome’s administrative capital in England,
30,000 people c. 250 CE
• Cities were laid in a grid-like pattern; Roman-built roads
still exist today
• Hadrian’s Wall: defensive wall spanning the east to west
width of the island (73 miles); castle posted every mile
• Romans “leave” in 407 A.D. because Visigoths attack
Rome (this leaves Britain defenseless)
• St. Augustine (the “other” St. Augustine) lands in Kent in
597 and converts King Aethelbert (King of Kent, the
oldest Saxon settlement) to Christianity; becomes first
Archbishop of Canterbury.
9. Anglo-Saxons
449 – 1066 CE
• Marauders who sailed across the Irish Sea
• 410-450 Angles and Saxons invade from Baltic shores
of Germany, and Jutes invade from Jutland peninsula in
Denmark, thus driving out the Celts. Scotland: fierce
tattooed men
• Nine Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms eventually become the
Anglo-Saxon heptarchy (England not unified at this
time) or “Seven Sovereign Kingdoms.”
– JUTES: neighbors to the Saxons; from south Denmark
– SAXONS: from the waters of the North Sea; “Saxon”
comes from “seax,” the short sword they used
– ANGLES: a Germanic tribe for which England was
named.
• King Alfred “the Great” managed peace against the
Danes for about a generation, until William of Normandy
defeated them in 1066.
10. • Society of warriors; chief/clan, protection from
wilderness
• Fair skin and hair, long hair, beards
• Carried iron-spiked spears, battle-axes, round wooden
shields covered with hide, carried short swords, and
wore war horns
• Ruthless and violent attackers: pillaged, looted, raped
and then returned home
• Eventually tempted by good farmland in Britain and
began to settle
• Defeated Roman forces in Britain
• Legend of King Arthur arose during this time
Anglo-Saxons
(Continued)
11. Anglo-Saxons
Old Warrior Religion
• Dark and fatalistic; no hope for afterlife
• Concerned more with ethics than mysticism
• Taught bravery, loyalty, generosity, and friendship
• Warrior gods:
– Odin (Woden, Wednesday): god of death, poetry, and
magic; could help humans communicate with spirits,
associated with burial and ecstatic trances
– Thunor (Thor, Thursday): god of thunder and lightning; sign
was hammer and also a twisted cross (now known as
swastika)
– Dragon: fire breathing; protector of treasure; personification
of death; guardian of grave mound
• With no hope for an afterlife
– fame through poetry became the only way to preserve
one’s life essence after death
– Creating poetry was as important as fighting, hunting,
farming, and loving
12. ANGLO-SAXON
Literature
• Germanic ethos that celebrated the warrior and his
exploits.
• Most storytelling was spoken or sung.
• Scops (pronounced “shops”): skilled storytellers (poets)
wrote and sang of gods and heroes
• Recited in huge banquet halls (mead-halls)
• Sang (delivered poetry) wile strumming harps; often
improvised
• Highly valued members of society
• Old English Poetry traits
• Alliteration- repetition of consonant sounds
• Kenning - a metaphor expressed as a compound
noun - “whale-path” for the sea.
• Caesura- a break or pause in poetry
14. Indo-European Language
“The Common Source”
• Sir William Jones- a British judge stationed in India in
1780 discovers that Sanskrit bears a striking
resemblance to Latin and Greek.
• Indo-European “the common source” (languages now
spoken by 1/3 of the human race include Latin, French,
Spanish, Slavic language, Russian, the Celtic
languages, Irish, Scots Gaelic, and the offshoots of
German- Dutch and English.
• Jacob Grimm, one of the famous Brothers Grimm,
established that the German vater (and English father)
has the same root as the Sanskrit/Latin pitar/pater.
Words such as me, new, seven, and mother were also
found to share common ancestry.
• The takeaway: ENGLISH HAS INDO-EUROPEAN
ORIGINS
16. English Language
History & Evolution
OLD ENGLISH 400-1066
Beowulf
Dream of the
Rood
þæt wæs geara iu (ic þæt gyta geman)
þæt ic wæs aheawen holtes on ende,
astyred of stefne minum.
Genamon me þær strange feondas,
geworhton him þær to wæfersyne,
heton me hiera wergas hebban;
bæron me þær beornas on eaxlum,
oþ þæt hie me beorg asetton;
gefæstnodon me þær feondas genoge.
Geseah ic þa Frean mancynnes
efstan elne micle, þæt he me wolde on gestigan.
þær ic þa ne dorste ofer Dryhtnes word
bugan oþþe berstan, þa ic bifian geseah - (Dream of the Rood)
Middle English 1066-1485 Chaucer
But, sires, now wol I telle forth my tale.
Thise riotoures thre of whiche I telle,
Longe erst er prime rong of any belle,
Were set hem in a tauerne to drynke,
And as they sat, they herde a belle clynke 5
Biforn a cors, was caried to his graue.
That oon of hem gan callen to his knaue:
"Go bet," quod he, "and axe redily
What cors is this that passeth heer forby;
And looke that thou reporte his name weel." 10
"Sire", quod this boy, "it nedeth neuer-a-deel;
It was me toold er ye cam heer two houres. - (The Pardoner’s Tale)
Early Modern
English
1485-1800
Shakespeare
Spenser
Vncouthe vnkiste, Sayde the olde famous Poete Chaucer: vvhom for his excellencie and vvonderfull skil
in making, his scholler Lidgate, a vvorthy scholler of so excellent a maister, calleth the Loadestarre of
our Language; and whom our Colin clout in his Æglogue calleth Tityrus the God of shepheards,
comparing hym to the worthines of the Roman Tityrus Virgile.
VVhich prouerbe, myne owne good friend Ma. Haruey, as in that good old Poete it serued
vvell Pandares purpose, for the bolstering of his baudy brocage, so very vvell taketh place in this our
nevv Poete, vvho for that he is vncouthe (as said Chaucer) is vnkist, and vnknown to most men, is
regarded but of fevv.
- (Preface to Spenser’s Shepheardes Calendar)
Modern English 1800-present Wordsworth
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— (The World Is Too Much With Us)
18. Epic Form
• A long and formal narrative poem written in an elevated style
• Recounts the adventures of a hero, often a great leader who
embodies the traits of a nation or people
• Leadership virtues: bravery, wisdom, charity
• Setting is broad and often includes the upper and lower
worlds
• Hero does great deeds in battle or undertakes an
extraordinary journey
• The hero’s actions often determine the fate of his people.
• Elevated diction; stylized verse
• Shows origins of a nation, people, or religious beliefs
• Gods and other supernatural forces intervene/appear
• The narrative often starts in medias res
• Episodic plot structure
• Uses specific literary terms & formats
(Beowulf: Kenning, Caesura, Alliteration, Metonymy)
19. Epic Verse (Anglo-Saxon)
• Alliterative trochaic tetrameter divided by a caesura
(occasionally iambic)
• Trochaic foot: / ~ Trochaic tetrameter: / ~ / ~ / ~ / ~
(4 feet per line)
• Each line in two halves, separated by a caesura,
• Rhythmically similar to hammering or marching, fits the
rhythm of the Old English language
Examples:
• “A powerful monster, living down
In the darkness, growled in pain, impatient
As day after day the music rang
Loud in the hall . . .
So Hrothgar’s men lived happy in his hall”
• “Then, when darkness had dropped, Grendel
Went up to Herot, wondering what the warriors
Would do in that hall when their drinking was done.”
** (caesura after Herot) **
20. Figures of Speech
Anglo-Saxon Literature
• Metonymy: Name of one thing is substituted for the
name of something else that most people would
associate with the first thing
– “Iron” for “Sword”
– “Crown” for “king” or “monarchy”
• Synecdoche: Substitute a part for the whole
– “keel” for “ship”
– “All hands on deck”
– “Heads of cattle”
– Kenning: A compound noun used as metaphorical
expression often used ironically in place of another word
– Sea = “whale-road” or “swan’s way”
– Joints, ligaments = “bone-locks”
– Sun = “sky-candle”
– Icicles = “water-ropes
21. Epic Hero
• Shows humility, not pride
(although he boasts and seeks glory)
• Loyalty and selflessness come before personal glory.
• Strong, virtuous, courageous, and honorable
• Judged by his honor as much as by his deeds.
• Superhuman strength and courage, especially in battle
• Sometimes tempted by the treasure
• Seeks to be remembered or immortalized
• His actions control the fate of his people
• Joseph Campbell - The Hero’s Journey
• “The old hero fights his last battle and passes the torch, for all temporal things
must perish, man and civilization. Sometimes, the earthly hero achieves
apotheosis, but not always. Although the message at the end of an epic is often
foreboding, a kind of resurrection is imminent, and like a phoenix or the Christ,
from the ashes of the old civilization, a new one will rise. The simple message to
Nicodemus is one all humans in a temporal climate recognize. ”
23. Beowulf
Epic Poem - c. 700-750
• Anglo-Saxon Epic (Old English)
• Composed 600-750 CE. (oral poetry)
• Manuscript c. 900’s CE. (10th cen.)
• Oral epic composed in Old English in northeast England
• First great work of English national literature
• to England what Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad are to
Greece
• Manuscript survived fire (1731 London)
• Setting: Sweden (south) & Zealand (Denmark)
• Cultures: Geats (Swedes) & Danes
• Religions: Christian & Pagan
• Translated by Seamus Heaney (Irish poet)
* Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature (1995)
• Beowulf (“bear”) from Sweden crosses the sea to Denmark
to do battle with the demonic monster Grendel in order to
save King Hrothgar; early 6th century setting
24. Beowulf
Heroic Epic - c. 600-750 CE. (disputed)
• Origin - Anglo-Saxon England
• Form - Heroic Epic poem (3,182 alliterative lines)
• Language - Old English - West Saxon dialect
• Composed - c. 600–750 CE - oral poetry (disputed)
• Manuscript - c. 975–1010 CE (10th century)
• First great work of English national literature
* to England what Homer’s Iliad is to Greece
• Source - Single Manuscript (London)
* Survived "Great Fire" (1731 Tiverton fire, London)
• Setting - Sweden (south) & Zealand (Denmark)
• Cultures - Geats (Swedes) & Danes
• Religions - Christian & Pagan
• Translation - Seamus Heaney (Irish poet)
* Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature (1995)
32. Sutton Hoo
• Ship burial of a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon king, possibly
Raedwald (c. 624/625)
• Found in 1939 at Sutton Hoo in eastern England,
formerly the Danelaw
• Ship was nearly 80 feet long, laden with treasures and
everyday equipment made of gold
• Window into the early Anglo-Saxon world
35. Christianity
Late 6th Century CE
• King Ethelbert was converted to Christianity by St.
Augustine, who was sent by the pope to proselytize the
Anglo-Saxons
• 597 – Augustine was consecrated Bishop of the English
people and given a house in Canterbury
• 609 – Pagan Londoners drove Bishop Mellitus out of
London
• Christianity gains more ground; unites country
• Celtic evangelists held that humans did not need an
Earthly arbiter between themselves and god.
• 660s and onward: Christian England was threatened by
Pagan Vikings and Danes