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location, but what happens to a language, like the English language, that is spread across the whole world? “The English language belongs to the West Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages,” according to M Boyanova. The Indo-European family started in Europe and South Asia, later spreading to other parts of the world. The West Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family includes the Afrikaans (spoken in South Africa), Dutch (spoken in Holland), English (spoken in the United

Indo-European language spread all throughout Europe and Asia, developing and evolving as it did. As they developed in isolation, by 1,000BC, Indo-European had split into smaller language groups, the main ones being Hellenic, Italic, Indo-Iranian, Celtic, Germanic, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, and Albanian. Several other groups existed, such as Anatolian, Tocharian, Phrygian, Thracian and Illyrian, but they have since died out before they had a chance to properly develop. Over time these new language groups

around 700 B.C.E, the epic was part of the oral tradition until it was transcribed by Christian monks. The epic showcasts germanic warrior culture, an aspect of English civilization that was about to come to an end. The center of the story is Beowulf, a pagan warrior from Geatland, and his fight with three different monsters, Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a dragon. In germanic warrior culture, it was not necessary to behave morally to please the gods. Additionally, the most valuable entity was kinship

In the per-modern era, human migration was a well-known occurrence that was caused by either force or willingness of the people. When migration was constituted through force, it was understood to be through political or economical duress. For instance, political measures unveiling large tax reforms created unbearable cost of living standards for the poor to survive. Whereas, increased economic labour created through force, was established for the rich to reap the benefits from majority of the poor

them. From the impact of every day necessities such as language and culture to the impact of leaders and kings I will look at pin pointing the causes of the Christianisation of Germanic people and why they were convinced by this new faith. First it must be noted that throughout this essay I will be using ‘barbarian’ and ‘Germanic’ interchangeably to describe the people in question. Christian culture becoming more accessible in the day to day life of barbarians influenced their conversion to Christianity

Integrity is the basis for trust in society. Without integrity, religion, education, commerce, and structural leadership cannot succeed. The importance of integrity has been stressed since the beginning of time in the Garden of Eden when God told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of the tree, but they went against God's command at the words of a convincing serpent. Integrity is a strong theme in medieval times often interwoven in code taken and upheld by the heroes of the time. This code is exhibited

be forgotten. The culture of Germanic men was was the setting for Beowulf. The story begins with Beowulf himself, king of the greats, when he comes to the aid of the aging king of Danes, Hrothgar. It follows from the crowning achievements to his untimely death. Even though the poem of Beowulf centers around Hubris, the story line relies heavily on the environment and culture of the Germanic people. There are four major aspects to take into consideration about Germanic culture. Paganism was the major

any childhood fantasy. Beowulf is one of the few examples of medieval oral poetry left, and also an example of the fusion of two cultures: Christian and Germanic. There are various monsters in the story that are recognisably Germanic, layered over with Christian influences. Countering those monsters are the hero and a king, again examples of Germanic and Christian tradition. Beowulf is a unique result of cultural synthesis in the middle ages, where the spread of Christianity caused modifications to

said that this is the result of a transcription made by some monks where they added the christian elements, on the other hand it is believed that the poem was written in a period in which the Anglo-Saxons were being converted from their worship of Germanic Pagan gods to the Christian God. “It was long held that the most substancial surviving Old English poem, Beowulf, was a pre-Christian composition which had somehow been tampered with by monastic scribes in order to give it an acceptably

Early Middle Ages: The Germanic Tribes, the Roman Legacy, and the Christian Church Marina Lundstrom History 114 – Western Civilization & The World I Due: November 8, 2014 After the fall of the Roman Empire around the fifth century, it took “hundreds of years” for the western part of Europe “to establish a new society.”1 The emergence of this new European civilization during a period known as the Early Middle Ages, included three major components: the Germanic tribes, the bequest of