ENGL 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Alliterative Verse, Migration Period, Roman Britain
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55 and 54 bce: julius caesar invades britain. 597: pope gregory the great sends augustine of canterbury to convert the english (christianity: 658-680: supposed date for caedmon"s hymm. 731: bede completes historia ecclesiasticae gentis anglorum (ecclesiastical history of the. If you take all the literature that has survived from the anglo-saxon"s could t into one book, therefore we cannot make assumptions about their culture as we only have a small portion to draw conclusions. Around page 30: cow chewing related to caedmon turning oral language into written literacy. Used to ll out the metre: since these were originally spoken. Words are conditioned by the poetic form itself. Seems like the descriptive words about god is repeated. It is a repetition of consonance sounds that begin words. Tend to have 4 main stress syllables, the typical line tends to be divide by a seizure (see anthology for the rest of de nition)
