English Literature The Anglo-Saxon period

The history of English literature is incredibly closely associated with the history of English people.

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As in the history of English people, so in the history of English literature, there were different phases of progress. Each of those phases referred to as AGE has been given a specific name typically according to the name of the King or Queen, sometimes after the name of a great writer and sometimes according to the spirit of the time. Some of the age have got more than one mane because different historians have given them different names.

Similarly, the period of the ages additionally differs consistently with the selection of historians. Apart from these, a number of the ages area unit sub-ages into smaller ages or amount.

The Old English Period

This age started in the middle of the 5th century and the middle of the 12th century in the present England and Scotland. The written patterns of the language are essentially their literary form. This is a West Germanic language. The language is similar to the ancient Frisian language. The northern Germanic Old Norse language also deeply influenced it. In this age started in the fifth century when Angels and Saxons came to England/Britain from Germany. The Old English Period ended in 1066.

This age remarkable work is "BEOWULF". It's the easiest epic English literature. This epic Poem was not found, who write this poem.
Venerable Bade was the first historian in English literature. He was the father of English learning.


The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Husband's Message and The wife's Lament are among the remarkable literary works of the age. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle written in this age is the easiest prose of English literature. The Anglo-Saxon age most of the literary works are anonymous (without a name). At the age, Evil is synthesized by monsters. This age Romantic love is absent. Attitude to women is respectful of this age. The chief ornamental of this is Alliteration. Paganism dominates the spirit of the time though Christianity is also traceable. The Anglo-Saxon period strong belief in Fate is reflected. In this age use more metaphor and fewer similes is the practice of the time. End rhyme is ignored.

Anglo-Saxons History

In the fifth and sixth centuries, the Anglo-Saxon and Judeans from the North Sea came to Britain. They went to the British Islands mainly from North Germany, Denmark and North-Holland. They were the main mixes. But most of them were Saxon, Engels and Jute. And, some of them were frank and Frisian. Saxon, Frank, and Frisian were German-Dutch. The Engels is native to southern Denmark.

Anglo-Saxons were included in the German nation. They went to the British Islands mainly from North Germany, Denmark and North-Holland. The northern part of Europe was known as 'Germania'. The reason for the Anglo-Saxon's arrival in the British Islands was the flood.

The Roman occupation of Britain was built by the parapet city. Although they lived in the parapet city, they lived in the village for the rural mentality of the Anglo-Saxons. Anglo-Saxons build villages, sometimes outside of the Roman wall, clean the forests, but never -  inside the Roman Wall. The Anglo-Saxons were skilled in the navy because their villages were near the river. The chief house of the village was the largest house in the village. The chief of the tribe stayed with the army in that house. There was also a separate house for soil work and clothes for the villages of Anglo-Saxon. The foothills were the Angola property of the Anglo-Saxons.