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Early British history, epics, alliteration, and a Harry Potter reference!

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welcome to the next installment of British literary history we're going to talk about the Anglo-Saxon period which most Scholars date from 4:49 to 10 6666 beers that everyone's supposed to know and that's because it's the Battle of Hastings you don't have to write anything down for this so that you can get for the sorts of things that are happening around the world during this.  So take a second this not very before the Anglo-Saxon period ancient Britain was inhabited by the Celtic tribes the britons and Link ails so the Arthur is supposedly from this. And they were generally farmers and Hunters they were ruled by priests and druid in credit on henge although Stonehenge was built during a variety of different eras so part of Stonehenge was already votes before even the couch and the Roman Empire put any permanent settlements but then Claudius in 43 invaded and the Romans settled and they really added a bunch of in previously so they put in a lot of roads they put in some Roman baths they built Hadrian's Wall which separated England from Scotland and the Roman Empire return back to Rome in the 400 and this left Britain vulnerable because no longer that they have the security and Armed Forces so with Britain vulnerable it faced an invasion of the angles and the Saxons the three of these were Germanic tribes and they came over and settled in various parts of Great Britain generally in the area of England if you look at that map and this was a very tribal Society so even though they're all a fairly similar location they developed their own separate settlements and cultures that was ruled by and their culture was centered on the war they were in a bunch of separate tribes and so there would be land power and they also faced many Vicodins and so because literature find Heroes they to find them based on physical strength on Courage on fealty which is loyalty to a King great Heroes should be famous according to the end would sing her out late or songs at Feast so they'd all Gather in a mead Hall where they drink this tiny based alcohol and eats East Wednesday with cops sing song about great Heroes and sleepy supposedly were part of stop literally means Schaefer and that's just one of many examples that we'll see where the Saxons are describing something that's emotional or conceptual in a very physical way right because they're imagine shaping the words something that is intangible and a very physical way  part of the English tell someone from your tribe your tribe has a right to get payment from me so I could give you some or you would be able to enact Revenge until someone from my tribe to centered on the relationship between the king and his warrior class or often referred to as stains so we have the king he would give to the Warriors and in exchange the Warriors would be loyal Dance Connection is Central to a lot of glitter tourist literature is going to deal with these upper classes the Warriors and the King and if the king and Anglo-Saxon King was anything had to be Jenner that was how he maintains his Google because he gave money five and then there were the Freeman or Charles in the slaves  King was advised by counsel of wise elders call the wind gamete and the only reason why is because and it's totally named after the wit and gamete Texan culture the goddess weird was the goddess of Faith she was very fickle and very powerful and once she had set against you however some of the greatest heroes could maybe make her change their minds to their bravery some of their gods are remembered in our case of the week so Wednesday is named after Logan King of the Gods English Saxon gods and he see some overlap there for us because  Thor as Thursday you know interaction with Vikings okay Christianity during the Anglo-Saxon period plays a really interesting well Christian introduced to Great Britain and it never really stopped except in Ireland and Ireland it hi it returns to a more Pagan religion for the most but when Augustine converts in 597 then that King kind of spreads themes to them through their loyalty King Alfred the Great really push for the preservation of Old English Vice tribes use Old English to spread Christianity because most Christian things that were coming in number of men and women Christianity for us as English Scholars lasting very very strong effect this is where things are really first written down so a lot of what's preserved was Word of Mouth oral tradition and then eventually written by scribes and monasteries once Christianity is kind of more common in Great Britain it also means that we are already seeing some things being written in Latin language interesting is that there will now be offered combinations of kind of the Pagan oral tradition with Christian overlay superhuman guys fighting and this guy would be like this makes me I need you to pick up them are trying to reconcile these Higgins stories with their Christian worldview on which makes it interesting study English literature do you still out of poetry because keep in mind that most of stuff for reading was spread through oral tradition so happy and stuff lights on  is present in poetry I made it easier for the stops to sing at all so how do you sleep  famous piece of literature from this. is a long narrative poem on a serious theme that narrates the adventure of a hero  I often talk about Epix this being in high mymedic form things that generally and generally written with an elevated Style yes also play some serious theme idea about the empowered about the powerful eventually as literature people with that in its original form King's Warriors  are they also phones which are brief homes with intense highly personal emotions often  Rhythm repetition and we see a lot of elegiac lyrics good morning or someone that died pumpkin is mourning the loss of pumpkin hi there Percy the poems that'll be a little strange because straight down one street down the other in the middle you still read them straight across that breaks called and it's a written mcpaws to rhythm is really really important in England poetry so when you see like a space in line and so used to light up alliteration there is no rhyme  I'm so alliteration combined with rhythm and repetition what make for tree Musical sounds so if I say the nice knitting that it's alliteration even though those three words start with different fat and INR I just realized something that I lost when I lost my old PowerPoint special type of metaphor that's common in English in literature are pennies and Kenyans are metaphoric or figurative and they usually combine two words in order to describe something else to replace that name so a whale Road  we're all the whale stripe their cars this is what Old English looks like the most important takeaway here not that we can't read this I'm going to play you a little of it right now stop from home your friend here like a stain gold Craigslist auto salesman Kunis - strongest on some diet to assist leave us alone 8 hey Tim is the dawn Golden Arrow 1 staff hopefully but notice old hot as a foreign language in colleges if you want to learn it the our language developed from that but obviously it had some changes in the process and we'll talk about those a lot next literary. I decided that I'm going to end all of my power points with a horrible joke so I made this one up it's pretty horrible we know Anglo-Saxon poets wrote long short poems micro Scott next time

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