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later the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons, on the mainland began invading England and the areas that we now know as Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Eventually, the Angles and Saxons took over the British Isles, which is where we get the term Anglo-Saxon. These people settled peacefully by the Celts and established their own communities. The Anglo-Saxons were the first group of people to use the word English to describe the language they spoke. This came from the West Germanic tribes being

much of its material had been in circulation in oral narrative for many years. The Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian peoples had invaded the island of Britain and settled there several hundred years earlier, bringing with them several closely related Germanic languages that would evolve into Old English. Elements of the Beowulf story—including its setting and characters—date back to the period before the migration. The action of the poem takes place around 500 a.d. Many of the characters in the poem—the

As an originally Germanic oral epic, Beowulf contains many virtues that constitute a society defined by heroic influences. These overwhelmingly Pagan virtues, including honor, loyalty and perseverance sometimes extend to Christianity, but often contradicts it. A good example of this is the virtue of physical strength and honor through battle which in Christian teaching would be seen as unnecessary or even sinful. The author most likely used this piece to spread Christianity through Pagan culture

It was an epic of the Germanic time, a poem of a noble man with high power, who strived to be a victorious hero. Beowulf is one of the oldest poems of the old English language to have survived (Raffel 30). As a story that has withstood this epic and heroic-age, Beowulf shows how, for the Anglo-Saxon cultures of the time, the value these cultures placed on war and what they considered to be a hero. Written around the eighth and tenth centuries, “surviving in a single tattered manuscript, its edges

Vengeance or revenge is defined as a punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong. Vengeance could be classified as a form of justice at times. And is seen through Beowulf and Iliad. In Beowulf, it seen through numerous characters. Revenge is a unique emotion in which is can be very motivating to accomplish a certain task, to serve for justice. In Iliad, Achilles using the feeling of Revenge to complete his journey. Comparing the two stories, vengeances is shown in both, and

take place in the late 5th century, A.D., after the Anglo-Saxons had started their journey to England, and before the beginning of the 7th century, a time when the Anglo-Saxon people were either newly arrived or still in close contact with their Germanic kinsmen in Northern Germany. The poem may have been brought to England by people of Geatish origins.[8] It has been suggested that Beowulf was first composed in the 7th century at Rendlesham in East Anglia, as the Sutton Hoo ship-burial also shows

So we can see that individually the words have different meanings and when they form a new word by adding with each other they have a completely new meaning. Origin of English Language English is a West Germanic language which was originated from the Anglo Frisian Dialect. It was establish in Britain by the German invaders who are known as North West Germany and Netherlands. So we see that English language did not occur on its own. It was derived from another

Literature”. Charlemagne was the former king of the Franks, king of the Lombards, and was the first Roman emperor for the Holy Roman Empire. One of his reigns were the Franks, which were a Germanic tribe in Belgium, France, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, and western Germany. One of his main goals were to unite all Germanic tribes under one kingdom and convert them to Christianity. It was because of Charlemagne that Christianity remained relevant in the west because of all his efforts. Another one of his

talk about two different cultures during this time that use magic and portray it in two very different ways as well as the different creatures that use the magic. The two European cultures we are going to discuss are the Celts and the Continental Germanic. So let us begin with the first of the cultures. The culture of the Celts show us that there was some magic involved in their culture. We learn that there was some type of magic in the Celts Folklore

the ages, then they are well respected. This is a very pagan belief (as Christianity could not endorse this due to it being relatively new itself), and showed that Anglo-Saxons knew that their bloodlines and the roots of their culture came from the Germanic warrior tribes of the east. “A secular Anglo-Saxon aristocrat, whose claims to prestige and authority depended in part on an ancient and therefore necessarily pagan lineage, would be much less inclined to ignore the achievements of his pagan ancestors