Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Angles, Jutes, Saxons
- emigrate from Scandinavia
- 5th century
- to Britannia
- the roman empire falls
- the future anglosaxons
- the anglosaxons' ancestors came
from the place in which Beowulf
is set
- beowulf is a story told by immigrants about their land
- oral poem
- social gatherings
- unify the tribe
- simple language
- lyre
- scop
- the poem changes over time
- also influenced by the story of Jesus Christ
- finally written down by 2 christian monks
- late 10th or early 11th century
- BEOWULF
- Christianity
- 4th century: emperor Constantine: edict of Milan
- religious tolerance
- monk Augustine
- king Aethelbert is converted
- one existing manuscript
- more interesting that the scholars thought
- Sutton Hoo shows how developed the Anglosaxon culture
was
- Elmet
- sword
- belt buckle
- shoulder clasp
- scop's lyre
- poetry as important as war