LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Sutton Hoo provides architectural evidence from a virtually unexplored period of history.
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Sutton Hoo gives more information about the society that created Beowulf.
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Sutton Hoo provides insight into the conversion from paganism to Christianity.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The significance of Sutton Hoo Sutton Hoo provides one of the richest sources of archaeological evidence for the Anglo-Saxon period of England’s history. The discovery in 1939 changed our understanding of that era, and a time that had been seen as backwards was suddenly illuminated as cultured and sophisticated.
Detailed explanation-2: -Purse lid from the Sutton Hoo ship burial Wealth, and its public display, was probably used to establish status in early Anglo-Saxon society much as it is today. The purse lid from Sutton Hoo is the richest of its kind yet found. The lid was made to cover a leather pouch containing gold coins.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial Its significance to the study of Beowulf is the interesting mix of Christian and pagan practices involved in the burial that mirrors a similar mix in beliefs in the poem.
Detailed explanation-4: -Discovery of the burial ground Amateur archaeologist Basil Brown famously made the discovery of a lifetime back in 1939, when he brushed away the Suffolk soil and revealed the richest intact early medieval grave in Europe.