Germanic

languages. This broad family includes most of the European languages spoken today such as Latin and the modern French; the Germanic languages (English, German, Swedish); the Slavic languages (Russian, Polish, Czech); the Baltic languages of Latvian and Lithuanian; the Celtic languages (Welsh, Irish Gaelic ); Greek. The source of the words England and English is the West Germanic invaders who came from Jutland and southern Denmark. The earliest inhabitants of the British Isles who have left a mark on

as he bravely states that he "will not shift a foot" against the dragon, for Beowulf breaking his promise to his people is the most disloyal action he could commit as a warrior in Germanic culture (2524). Even Beowulf’s most loyal warrior Wiglaf understands how intricately loyalty is interconnected to being a Germanic warrior and to one’s reputation, he reaffirms this concept rather bluntly when he says, “A warrior will sooner/die than live a life of shame" (2890-2891). From Beowulf’s actions and

For my research, I conducted an analysis of the Frisian language. Frisian is a part of the Proto-Indo-European language family, specifically the Germanic branch in the Western Germanic tradition. Frisian developed in the Western Germanic family and then it grew and changed from Old Frisian into Modern Frisian. Frisian, unlike English, has no intervening steps between Old Frisian and Modern Frisian: e.g. English developed from Old English, to Middle English, to Modern English. According to classical

Anglo-Saxon is used to refer to a period of history in Britain, which was the years between the end of Roman occupation and the Norman Conquest. The term "Anglo-Saxon" has been historically used to describe many members of the Germanic peoples. The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes were Germanic people that the Anglo-Saxons descended from. The Anglo-Saxon people spoke their own dialects that later became known as Old English. When the Anglo-Saxons settled in Britain, the Jutes and the Frisians from Denmark were

The character a man holds to be significant in his life conducts the decisions he makes. The epic Beowulf sets a perfect example of this truth. Beowulf demonstrates him as divine, whom obtains a strength and hero soul incomparable to any individual. The decisions he had built affected his potential. These decisions took play in the end of the story. Throughout Beowulf’s life he engages in threats that many individuals cannot even accept. He lives by honor and glory and desires power in anyone thing

There are many stories in the world that have a very influential background and Beowulf is no exception. Beowulf is written in 1000 AD, but before then it is spoken and spread from generation to generation, which causes the story to start to receive different influences from each person who said it. When the story is finally written, it had collected thousands of different influences that created an epic tale. This tale is predominantly influenced by religion, but before one can fully understand

Saxon tribe were “raiders from anywhere along the coastal lands from what is now northern Germany to northern France”. These tribes invaded Britain, drove the Celts out and took possession of the country. Initially their language consisted of various Germanic languages and over time it became known as Old English; which originally consisted of many dialects, with the major ones being Northumbrian, Mercian, West Saxon and Kentish. Subsequently, as the language developed and people started using it more

Like societal norms in contemporary western society, the Germanic heroic code acts as a set of rules and regulations that govern many everyday aspects of individuals lives in the Anglo-Saxon culture. Although similar to modern societal norms in terms of application, the Germanic heroic code is very different in many other ways, specifically in the sense that rebellion against this rigid code results in extreme implications such as persecution, exile, or execution. In his publication Beowulf and Epic

English syntax makes it a more analytic as opposed to Japanese where word order is not so important as the affixes of words so reordering of a sentence can still have the same meaning even if they sound funny unlike in English where word order is the de facto method of easy communication (Freeman & Freeman, 2014, p. 194). In Finnegan (2015), the sentence: “The farmer saw the wolf” is used to show how word order can explain why syntax is so important in English; English is an SVO language or a language

Who were the Anglo-Saxons? The Anglo-Saxons can loosely be defined as the Germanic tribes who settled in Britain at the start of the 5th century with the fall of the Roman Empire. The importance of these settlers and their identity in the long term development of medieval Europe is emphasised by John Hines who asserts that “the breakdown of the Roman Imperial Order in Western Europe saw the emergence of entirely new…identities”. When considering Anglo-Saxon identity, two main concepts must be addressed;