Monday, May 7, 2012

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Ballad Tradion of the Anglo Saxon Period

 Anglo Saxon brought a magical charms and roughness to thecharacters in the ballads. The charms explain themselves as an inevitable product of primitive; the ballads first went on all races.At the very beginning of human society, long before the commencement of history, the primitive groups of savages who then constituted mankind were instinctively led to express their emotions together, communally, in rhythmical fashion. Perhaps after an achievement in hunting or war the village-group would mechanically fall into a dance, sometimes, it might be, about their village fire.


http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/rfletcher/bl-rfletcher-history-1-anglo-saxon.htm



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Friday, April 27, 2012

The Development of English

Old English 449- 1150
   Old English uses the Latin alphabet that has 26 consonants and vowels. When this language first began it only had a few words of kinship like faeder, modor, brothor, sweostor, and dohter.

Old English Alphabet
http://www.encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org/articles/24_the_development_of.htm

Middle English 1150-1500
  In this time the English language was transformed and a French element was put in. There were two main streams of literature, religious literature and secular literature.


  http://www.msedl.wz.cz/english_literature.pdf




The Epic Heoreos of the Anglo Saxon Period and Middle Ages





Beowulf was a strong and courageous person. He was prince the the Geats. He was the hero that when he said he was going to do something he was going to it no matter what the out would be.


http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf981e/char.html


King Authur was the son of Igrayne and Uther Pendragon. He is the only ruler of Britian known for pulling the sword out of stone. He was taken from birth by Merlin an was raised in Avalon by Sir Ector.



http://quizlet.com/898069/king-arthur-characters-flash-cards/