English Literature

THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050)

Beowulf

8th – 11th
Poem
Century

450 CE – 1050 Old

AD English

West Scandinavian
Saxon Setting
Beowulf Plotlines

Prologue Heoroth First fight

• Scyld death terror • Grendel
• Hrothgar

Second fight Third fight Beowulf

• Merewif • The Dragon death
• Wiglaf
History and Meaning

Northern
Legends
•Beowa

Beowulf

Hygelac Man
•520 AD against
•Rhine nature
Poetical Form


... Hie dygel Alliteration pada dua atau lebih
lond
Warigeath, wulf-hleothu, windige næssas, kata pada baris yang sama
Frecne fen-gelad, thær fyrgen-stream
Under næssa genipu nither gewiteth,
Flod under foldan. Nis thæt feor heonon, Setiap baris terdiri atas dua
Mil-gemearces, thaet se mere standeth,
Ofer thæm hongiath hrinde bearwas bagian, dipisahkan oleh jeda

... They (a) darksome
land Tak ada rima
Ward (inhabit), wolf cliffs, windy nesses,
Frightful fen paths where mountain
stream • Rima dari alat musik atau nyanian
Under nesses' mists nether (downward)
wanders, Efek music tercipta dari aksen
A flood under earth. It is not far hence,
By mile measure, that the mere stands, pada suku kata
Over which hang rimy groves.
• Biasanya ada 4 aksen dgn aliterasi
Poems

• Before Saxon

Widsith • Wandering life of the gleeman

Deor's • Anglo-Saxon period

• Saxon minstrel
Lament
• Hardships of ocean life & subtle call of the

The Seafarer sea

• Allegory; trouble of life and the call to God
Anglo-saxon Name

Jutes, Angles, North Sea &

and Saxons Baltic Britain
• 5th CE • Migrasi

Anglalond Saxon English

• Englelond • seax, sax (Pedang • Angeln (Old Eng:
• England pendek) Hook, Mancing)
Anglo-saxon life

Savage
Seaman
nature
hardship
and man

Literature
Anglo-saxon inner life

Outer Inner
Introduction to
Literature
Christian Writers Of The Anglo-saxon Period
Division

Old
English

450-1050
Pagan Christian
AD

Oral Old Monk

Latin
sagas English influences
Influencing Schools

Literature

Essex (South and Northumbrian

Center England) Literature

Monks, Abbey &

Not lasting Bede,
Augustine of Monastaries
(Partially Aidan of Ireland Cædmon, and
Rome (Jarrow and
educated) Cynewulf
Whitby)
Northumbrian School

The
Venerable
Bede

Northumbrian
School

Cynewulf Cædmon
Bede

The Venerable
Bede

Over forty
"the father of Ecclesiastical
works
(673-735 AD) our English History of the
exclusively in
learning" English People
Latin
Cædmon (Seventh Century)

Poet

About 665
Paraphrase
A.D.

Genesis, The work of

Poetry Exodus, and a more than
part of Daniel one writer
Paraphrase

Fall of Satan Creation of Exodus

Hymn of and his rebel the world • Saxon army to
heaven angels from • Deluge battle
heaven
Cynewulf (Eighth Century)

Signed Never Woven

Secret
Poet his plainly into the
runes
works written verses
Cynewulf’s Works

The Christ
Signed
Juliana

The Fates of the Apostles

Elene

Andreas
Unsigned the Phoenix
the Dream of the Rood
the Descent into Hell
Guthlac
the Wanderer
some of the Riddles
The Christ

The Christ

Deep love for

Spirit of early
Christ &
Didactic Latin
reverence for
Christianity.
the Virgin Mary
The Christ

"Doomsday"
• torments of the
Didactic Nativity Ascension wicked and the
unending joy of
the redeemed.
Decline of Northumbrian Literature

The surviving
Monasteries, True
End of fragments are
Danes attack libraries and Northumbrian
Cynewulf West Saxons
English coasts scholar were literature
Century dialect
destroyed perished
translation