Documents Background: The Time and Place Imagine a time when tribes from northern Europe regularly raided one....

Slide 1 Background: The Time and Place Imagine a time when tribes from northern Europe regularly raided one another’s shores to loot and burn each other’s settlements;…

Documents BEOWULF

BEOWULF BEOWULF First epic of England What is it? Anglo-Saxon literature (starting in 449 A.D.) takes on two typical forms: Elegiac poem: poem that grieves for the dead Heroic…

Documents BEOWULF

BEOWULF BEOWULF First epic of England What is it? Anglo-Saxon literature (starting in 449 A.D.) takes on two typical forms: Elegiac poem: poem that grieves for the dead Heroic…