LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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war song
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heroic poem
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chronicle
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novel
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Detailed explanation-1: -These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles, riddles, and others. In all there are about 400 surviving manuscripts from the period, a significant corpus of both popular interest and specialist research.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many themes in Anglo-Saxon literature even inspired modern-day authors and those are honor, generosity, unity, and glory which are still present even in modern-day literature.
Detailed explanation-3: -Beowulf is arguably the most popular work of Anglo-Saxon literature and it is easy to see why. Written in around 700/800 AD, the poem focuses on the heroic exploits of Beowulf, who comes to the aid of the Danes by ridding them of the monster Grendel.
Detailed explanation-4: -Love for personal freedom. Responsiveness to Nature. Religion. Reverence for Womanhood. Struggle for Glory. 09-Jul-2021