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a white inhabitant of the U.S who is of non-
hispanic descent.
- a member of an ancient Germanic people,
some of whom settled in England.
Old English Literature
 encompasses literature written in Old English
(also called Anglo-Saxon) in Anglo-SaxonEngland from the
7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of
1066.
Poems are handed down through
generation to generation.
Scops or wandering bards recited
the poems with the
accompaniment of harp.
composed in the 7th century
according to Bede, is often
considered the oldest extant poem
in English, whereas the later
poem, The Grave is one of the
final poems written in Old English,
and presents a transitional text
between Old and Middle English.
 Nū sculon heriġean heofonrīċes weard,
Meotodes meahte ond his mōdġeþanc,
weorc wuldorfæder, swā hē wundra
ġehwæs,
ēċe Drihten, ōr onstealde.
Hē ǣrest sceōp eorðan bearnum
heofon tō hrōfe, hāliġ Scyppend;
þā middanġeard monncynnes weard,
ēċe Drihten, æfter tēode
fīrum foldan, Frēa ælmihtiġ.
Hail now the holder of heaven's realm,
That architect's might, his mind's many
ways,
Lord forever and father of glory,
Ultimate crafter of all wonders,
Holy Maker who hoisted the heavens
To roof the heads of the human race,
And fashioned land for the legs of man,
Liege of the worldborn, Lord almighty.
one of the oldest of
(the others
being the ,
the , and the
). It is an anthology of Old
English prose and verse that dates
back to the late 10th century. The
manuscript is housed in the Capitulary
Library of Vercelli, in northern Italy.
The Vercelli Book comprises 135
folios, and although the manuscript
was probably compiled and written in
the late 10th century, not all of the
texts found in the manuscript were
originally written at that time. The
Vercelli Book contains 23 prose
homilies (the Vercelli Homilies) and a
prose vita of Saint Guthlac,
interspersed with six poems:
The poem itself is a 1,722 line poem
that tells the story of St. Andrew, as he
rescues St. Matthew from a
cannibalistic race called
Mermedonians.
"The poem is forceful and is the
closest to Beowulf in style and tone
among the surviving Old English
poems"
 Fates of the Apostles (Vercelli Book, fol.52b-
54a) is the shortest of Cynewulf’s known
canon at 122 lines long. It is a
brief martyrology of the Twelve
Apostles written in the standard alliterative
verse. The Fates recites the key events that
subsequently befell each apostle after
the Ascension of Jesus. It is possible
that The Fates was composed as a learning
aid to the monasteries.
Soul and Body is a poem in which the
soul addresses its body.
is one of the oldest poems to have
survived in two manuscripts of Old
English,despite their differences (in
structure and length, for example),
the Soul and Body poems address
similar themes.
Like many poems of the Anglo-Saxon
period, The Dream of the
Rood exhibits many Christian and pre-
Christian images, but in the end is a
Christian piece. The poem is set up
with the narrator having a dream. In
this dream or vision he is speaking to
the Cross on which Jesus was
crucified.
is a poem in Old English, that
is sometimes known as Saint
Helena Finds the True Cross.
It was translated from
a Latin text and is the longest
of Cynewulf's four signed
poems.
in theology, is the application of
the general principles of
rhetoric to the specific department
of public preaching.
 Homiletics comprises the study of
the composition and delivery of a
sermon or other religious
discourse
is a tenth-century book or codex which
is an anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
It is believed originally to have
contained 131 leaves, of which the first
8 have been replaced with other
leaves; the original first 8 pages are
lost. The Exeter Book is the largest
known collection of Old
English literature still in existence.
•In addition, the Exeter Book preserves 95
riddles
•Exeter Book, the largest extant collection of
Old English poetry.
•It begins with some long religious poems:
the Christ, in three parts; two poems on St.
Guthlac; the fragmentary “Azarius”; and the
allegorical Phoenix.
“The Wanderer,”
“The Seafarer,”
 “The Wife’s Lament,”
 “The Husband’s Message,” and
“The Ruin”
It is most famous as
the manuscript containing the
unique copy of the epic
poem Beowulf.
also sometimes known
simply as the Beowulf
manuscript.
Epic poetry
Hagiography
Sermons
Bible trnslations
Chronicles
Riddles
Traditionally, an epic
poem is a long,
serious,poetic narrative
about a significant event,
often featuring a hero.
a book about someone's
life that makes it seem
better than it really is or
was : a biography that
praises someone too
much.
A sermon is an oration by a member of
the clergy. Sermons address a Biblical,
theological, religious, or moral topic,
usually expounding on a type of belief,
law or behavior within both past and
present contexts. Elements of
the sermon often include exposition,
exhortation and practical application.
The Bible has
been translated into many
languages from the biblical
languages of Hebrew, Aramaic an
d Greek. As of November 2014
the full Bible has been translated
into 531 languages, and
2,883 languages have at least
some portion of the Bible.
 is a historical account of facts
and events ranged
in chronological order, as in
a time line.
Their literary ancestry dates all
the way back
to Plato and Aristotle. In
ancient Greece, riddles were
used as a cunning tool, to
demonstrate wit and wisdom.
An enigma is a problem in which the
solution is expressed metaphorically.
You have to carefully think about the
riddle to come up with the solution.
A conundrum is a question that opens
either the question or the answer.
The verses are highly alliterative in
nature with frequent pauses called
caesura in each line. They also
make elaborate metaphors called
KENNINGS.
Kennings used compound poetic
phrases to substitute for the name
of a person or thing.
the storm of swords
battle sweat
the twilight spoiler
ring giver
peace bringer among nations
swan road
light of battle
bone house
the sea-farer
ALLITERATION
The repetition of initial consonant
sounds in two or more words or
phrase.
Example:
The splendor falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story.
 1. “Three eyes have I, all in a row; when the red
one opens, all freeze.”
 2. I have a tail, and I have a head, but i have no
body. I am NOT a snake. What am I?
 3. You throw away the outside and cook the
inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away
the inside. What did you eat?
 4. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but
never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a
bed but never sleeps?
 5. What has a face and two hands but no arms or
legs?
 6. What is greater than God, more evil than the devil,
the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it,
you'll die?
 7. Who makes it, has no need of it.
Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can
neither see nor feel it.
What is it?
 8. Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a
butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does
he weigh?
 9. Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
 10. it occurs once in every minute, twice in every
moment, yet never in a thousand years?
A poor farmer went to the market to sell some
peas and lentils. However, as he had only one sack
and didn't want to mix peas and lentils, he poured in
the peas first, tied the sack in the middle, and then
filled the top portion of the sack with the lentils. At the
market a rich innkeeper happened by with his own
sack. He wanted to buy the peas, but he did not want
the lentils.
Pouring the seed anywhere else but the sacks is
considered soiling. Trading sacks is not allowed. The
farmer can't cut a hole in his sack.
How would you transfer the peas to the innkeeper's
sack, which he wants to keep, without soiling the
produce?
13 people came into a hotel with 12 rooms
and each guest wanted his own room. The
bellboy solved this problem.
He asked the thirteenth guest to wait a little with
the first guest in room number 1. So in the first
room there were two people. The bellboy took the
third guest to room number 2, the fourth to
number 3, ..., and the twelfth guest to room
number 11. Then he returned to room number 1
and took the thirteenth guest to room number 12,
still vacant.
How can everybody have his own room?
3.Two girls were born to the
same mother, on the same
day, at the same time, in the
same month and year and yet
they're not twins.
How can this be?

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Anglo saxon literature

  • 1.
  • 2. a white inhabitant of the U.S who is of non- hispanic descent. - a member of an ancient Germanic people, some of whom settled in England. Old English Literature  encompasses literature written in Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) in Anglo-SaxonEngland from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
  • 3. Poems are handed down through generation to generation. Scops or wandering bards recited the poems with the accompaniment of harp.
  • 4.
  • 5. composed in the 7th century according to Bede, is often considered the oldest extant poem in English, whereas the later poem, The Grave is one of the final poems written in Old English, and presents a transitional text between Old and Middle English.
  • 6.  Nū sculon heriġean heofonrīċes weard, Meotodes meahte ond his mōdġeþanc, weorc wuldorfæder, swā hē wundra ġehwæs, ēċe Drihten, ōr onstealde. Hē ǣrest sceōp eorðan bearnum heofon tō hrōfe, hāliġ Scyppend; þā middanġeard monncynnes weard, ēċe Drihten, æfter tēode fīrum foldan, Frēa ælmihtiġ.
  • 7. Hail now the holder of heaven's realm, That architect's might, his mind's many ways, Lord forever and father of glory, Ultimate crafter of all wonders, Holy Maker who hoisted the heavens To roof the heads of the human race, And fashioned land for the legs of man, Liege of the worldborn, Lord almighty.
  • 8. one of the oldest of (the others being the , the , and the ). It is an anthology of Old English prose and verse that dates back to the late 10th century. The manuscript is housed in the Capitulary Library of Vercelli, in northern Italy.
  • 9. The Vercelli Book comprises 135 folios, and although the manuscript was probably compiled and written in the late 10th century, not all of the texts found in the manuscript were originally written at that time. The Vercelli Book contains 23 prose homilies (the Vercelli Homilies) and a prose vita of Saint Guthlac, interspersed with six poems:
  • 10. The poem itself is a 1,722 line poem that tells the story of St. Andrew, as he rescues St. Matthew from a cannibalistic race called Mermedonians. "The poem is forceful and is the closest to Beowulf in style and tone among the surviving Old English poems"
  • 11.  Fates of the Apostles (Vercelli Book, fol.52b- 54a) is the shortest of Cynewulf’s known canon at 122 lines long. It is a brief martyrology of the Twelve Apostles written in the standard alliterative verse. The Fates recites the key events that subsequently befell each apostle after the Ascension of Jesus. It is possible that The Fates was composed as a learning aid to the monasteries.
  • 12. Soul and Body is a poem in which the soul addresses its body. is one of the oldest poems to have survived in two manuscripts of Old English,despite their differences (in structure and length, for example), the Soul and Body poems address similar themes.
  • 13. Like many poems of the Anglo-Saxon period, The Dream of the Rood exhibits many Christian and pre- Christian images, but in the end is a Christian piece. The poem is set up with the narrator having a dream. In this dream or vision he is speaking to the Cross on which Jesus was crucified.
  • 14. is a poem in Old English, that is sometimes known as Saint Helena Finds the True Cross. It was translated from a Latin text and is the longest of Cynewulf's four signed poems.
  • 15. in theology, is the application of the general principles of rhetoric to the specific department of public preaching.  Homiletics comprises the study of the composition and delivery of a sermon or other religious discourse
  • 16. is a tenth-century book or codex which is an anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry. It is believed originally to have contained 131 leaves, of which the first 8 have been replaced with other leaves; the original first 8 pages are lost. The Exeter Book is the largest known collection of Old English literature still in existence.
  • 17. •In addition, the Exeter Book preserves 95 riddles •Exeter Book, the largest extant collection of Old English poetry. •It begins with some long religious poems: the Christ, in three parts; two poems on St. Guthlac; the fragmentary “Azarius”; and the allegorical Phoenix.
  • 18. “The Wanderer,” “The Seafarer,”  “The Wife’s Lament,”  “The Husband’s Message,” and “The Ruin”
  • 19. It is most famous as the manuscript containing the unique copy of the epic poem Beowulf. also sometimes known simply as the Beowulf manuscript.
  • 21. Traditionally, an epic poem is a long, serious,poetic narrative about a significant event, often featuring a hero.
  • 22. a book about someone's life that makes it seem better than it really is or was : a biography that praises someone too much.
  • 23. A sermon is an oration by a member of the clergy. Sermons address a Biblical, theological, religious, or moral topic, usually expounding on a type of belief, law or behavior within both past and present contexts. Elements of the sermon often include exposition, exhortation and practical application.
  • 24. The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic an d Greek. As of November 2014 the full Bible has been translated into 531 languages, and 2,883 languages have at least some portion of the Bible.
  • 25.  is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order, as in a time line.
  • 26. Their literary ancestry dates all the way back to Plato and Aristotle. In ancient Greece, riddles were used as a cunning tool, to demonstrate wit and wisdom.
  • 27. An enigma is a problem in which the solution is expressed metaphorically. You have to carefully think about the riddle to come up with the solution. A conundrum is a question that opens either the question or the answer.
  • 28. The verses are highly alliterative in nature with frequent pauses called caesura in each line. They also make elaborate metaphors called KENNINGS. Kennings used compound poetic phrases to substitute for the name of a person or thing.
  • 29. the storm of swords battle sweat the twilight spoiler ring giver peace bringer among nations swan road light of battle bone house the sea-farer
  • 30. ALLITERATION The repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more words or phrase. Example: The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story.
  • 31.  1. “Three eyes have I, all in a row; when the red one opens, all freeze.”  2. I have a tail, and I have a head, but i have no body. I am NOT a snake. What am I?  3. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?  4. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?  5. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
  • 32.  6. What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?  7. Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?  8. Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?  9. Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?  10. it occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?
  • 33. A poor farmer went to the market to sell some peas and lentils. However, as he had only one sack and didn't want to mix peas and lentils, he poured in the peas first, tied the sack in the middle, and then filled the top portion of the sack with the lentils. At the market a rich innkeeper happened by with his own sack. He wanted to buy the peas, but he did not want the lentils. Pouring the seed anywhere else but the sacks is considered soiling. Trading sacks is not allowed. The farmer can't cut a hole in his sack. How would you transfer the peas to the innkeeper's sack, which he wants to keep, without soiling the produce?
  • 34. 13 people came into a hotel with 12 rooms and each guest wanted his own room. The bellboy solved this problem. He asked the thirteenth guest to wait a little with the first guest in room number 1. So in the first room there were two people. The bellboy took the third guest to room number 2, the fourth to number 3, ..., and the twelfth guest to room number 11. Then he returned to room number 1 and took the thirteenth guest to room number 12, still vacant. How can everybody have his own room?
  • 35. 3.Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be?