ENGL 221 Lecture Notes - Caesura, Germanic Languages, Jutes
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Anglo-saxon is a germanic language brought by invaders to england in the 5th century. Anglos and saxons brought this language along with the jutes (too long to be included in the name): poetry brought was oral. There is a materialism that pervades the language as well as honor through these things: the description of things in beowulf are very concrete and rich as opposed to abstract, caesura: a break in each line. Each side of the caesura echoes the other: kenning: combination words that are greater than the sum of their parts such as.
