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    This document provides an overview of British history from 800 BC to 1066 AD. It describes the Celtic Britons who settled in Britain in the 800-600 BC period. It then discusses the Roman occupation and introduction of Latin and Christianity. The Anglo-Saxons conquered Britain starting in the 5th century AD and introduced Old English poetry like Beowulf. Anglo-Saxon poetry was unrhymed with alliterative lines. During the Northumbrian period in the 7th-8th centuries, most literature was Christian works produced in monasteries. West Saxon prose developed in the 9th century including entries in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

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    This document provides an overview of British history from 800 BC to 1066 AD. It describes the Celtic Britons who settled in Britain in the 800-600 BC period. It then discusses the Roman occupation and introduction of Latin and Christianity. The Anglo-Saxons conquered Britain starting in the 5th century AD and introduced Old English poetry like Beowulf. Anglo-Saxon poetry was unrhymed with alliterative lines. During the Northumbrian period in the 7th-8th centuries, most literature was Christian works produced in monasteries. West Saxon prose developed in the 9th century including entries in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

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    This document provides an overview of British history from 800 BC to 1066 AD. It describes the Celtic Britons who settled in Britain in the 800-600 BC period. It then discusses the Roman occupation and introduction of Latin and Christianity. The Anglo-Saxons conquered Britain starting in the 5th century AD and introduced Old English poetry like Beowulf. Anglo-Saxon poetry was unrhymed with alliterative lines. During the Northumbrian period in the 7th-8th centuries, most literature was Christian works produced in monasteries. West Saxon prose developed in the 9th century including entries in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

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    CHAPTER 1

    PERIOD I. THE BRITONS AND


    THE ANGLO SAXONS. TO A.
    D. 1066

    Angga Brian Fernandi (2211416047)


    Arina Swandani (2211416029)
    THE BRITONS
     Between 800 and 600 B.C., two groups of Celts from
    southern Europe invaded the British Isles.
     Brythons (now spelled “Britons”) settled on the largest
    Island, Britain.
     Gaels or Goidels, settled on the second largest island,
    known to us as Ireland.
    The characteristic of Britons
    a. Vigorous (fitful emotionalism) 
    vivacious, lovers, and brave
    b. Fantastic and delicate sensitiveness to
    beauty.
    These charming of feeling is apparently
    great contribution of The Britons to English
    Literature.
    THE ROMAN OCCUPATION
     Roman conquest and occupation of
    Britain produced vitually no effect on
    English Literature but Latin as the
    language of the rulling class of Roman
    immigrants, who introduced Roman
    civilization and Christianity.

     Roman was centered on other things than


    writing.
    THE ANGLO-SAXONS CONQUEST AND
    SETTLEMENT

    The most important


    humanizing influence was
    the reintroduction of
    Christianity
    ANGLO-SAXON POETRY. THE EARLY
    PAGAN POETRY AND ‘BEOWULF’

    Pagan poetry (secular poetry)


    Emphasize the harshness of the
    circumstances and the helplessness of
    humans before the power of fate
    Beowulf is one of the
    earliest known pieces of
    literature known in the
    English language; written in
    Old English
    THE ANGLO-SAXON VERSE-
    FORM:
     The verse is unrimed, not arranged in
    stanzas, and with lines more commonly
    end-stopped (with distinct pauses at the
    ends) than is true in good modern poetry.
    Each line is divided into halves and each
    half contains two stressed syllables,
    generally long in quantity.
     Itwill be seen therefore that
    (1) emphatic stress and;
    (2) alliteration are the basal principles of the
    system.
    ANGLO-SAXON POETRY - THE
    NORTHUMBRIAN PERIOD:

     'Beowulf,'appears at about the time when it was


    being put into its present form. This was in the
    Northern, Anglian, kingdom of Northumbria.
     The greater part of the literature of the
    period, however, was Christian, produced
    in the monasteries or under their
    influence.
    THE WEST-SAXON, PROSE,
    PERIOD:
     Theold English was also the language in the
    early entries of the Anglo-Saxon chronicles
    and of the West-Saxon Gospels.
     Theold English was an unglamourised
    plain speech of main statements and few
    subordinate clauses that was capable of
    conveying successfully.
     Onthis foundation the varieties of Anglo-
    Saxon prose were developed such as the
    more fluid progressive language of Alfred
    and the graceful narrative of Aelfric.

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