2025年1月16日 · Old English prose works include legal writings, medical tracts, religious texts, and translations from Latin and other languages. Particularly notable is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a historical record begun about the time of King Alfred ’s reign (871–899) and continuing for more than three centuries.

Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066, a period often termed Anglo-Saxon England. [1]

The Anglo Saxon Period in English literature spanned from 410 CE to 1066 CE. Despite coinciding with the Dark Ages of England, it is the foundational period of English identity and language as we know today.

2017年3月8日 · But there’s a wealth of great literature written in Old English, as the following pick of ten of the best testifies (we hope). For a good anthology of Anglo-Saxon literature in modern translation, we recommend The Anglo-Saxon World An Anthology (Oxford World’s Classics). 1. Anonymous, The Exeter Book riddles.

2015年2月2日 · In this exclusive interview, James Blake Wiener talks with Professor Larry Swain of Bemidji State University about these works, as well as Norse and Irish influences on Anglo-Saxon literature and the significance of the Byzantines, Theodore and Hadrian, who came to Northumbria in the seventh century CE.

2022年2月22日 · Anglo-Saxon literature incorporates prose, poetry, puzzles, maxims, and countless wisdom epigrams. It is an amalgamation of pagan conventions – concepts about soul and nature – and also Christian conventions and moral values.

2022年2月17日 · The Introduction synthesises and develops dominant approaches to Anglo-Saxon literature today, integrating Old English and Latin traditions, and placing the literature in larger historical and theoretical contexts.

Developing over the course of half a millennium and composed in two languages, Latin and Old English, Anglo-Saxon literature has proved endlessly interesting to those who know it and offers new horizons for those coming to it for the first time.

2023年8月28日 · In this article, we will delve into the characteristics, themes and significant literary works of Anglo-Saxon literature so as to shed light on its enduring importance. The story of the Anglo-Saxons commences with their migration …

Of several poems dealing with English history and preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the most notable is “ The Battle of Brunanburh,” a panegyric on the occasion of King Athelstan ’s victory over a coalition of Norsemen and Scots in 937.