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Beowulf at Wikisource. Beowulf ( / ˈbeɪəwʊlf /; [1] Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature. The date of composition is a matter of contention ...
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(Oxford, 2005) [hereafter Blair, Church in Anglo-Saxon Society], p. 52. 5 Page, 'Anglo-Saxon Paganism', p. 128. 6 For further comments see the following key texts: G. R. Owen, Rites and Religions of the Anglo-Saxons (Newton Abbot, 1981); Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Paganism; A. M. Meaney, 'Pagan English Sanctuaries, Place-Names and Hundred Meeting ...
The study of the role of women in the society of early medieval England, or Anglo-Saxon England, is a topic which includes literary, history and gender studies. Important figures in the history of studying early medieval women include Doris Stenton, Christine Fell, and Pauline Stafford. The opportunities and influence that a woman had in early ...
Sometime around the year 1014, the pulpits of Anglo-Saxon England resounded to the words of the caustic homily known as Sermo lupi ad anglos, ‘The Sermon of the Wolf to the English’. The author of the piece was almost certainly Archbishop Wulfstan of York, one of the nation’s leading clergymen, and he was writing as the reign of ...
Art historian and museum director. Sir David Mackenzie Wilson, FBA (born 30 October 1931) is a British archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator, specialising in Anglo-Saxon art and the Viking Age. From 1977 until 1992 he served as the Director of the British Museum, where he had previously worked, from 1955 to 1964, as an assistant keeper.
PAGANISM, ANGLO-SAXON PAGANISM, ANGLO-SAXON . The "Anglo-Saxon" history of England stretches from the fifth to the eleventh centuries. Even before then, however, in 98 ce, Tacitus cites the "Angli" as one of seven tribes on the northeastern German seaboard who worshiped "Nerthus, i.e., Earth the Mother" (Robinson, 1935, p. 317), a Bronze Age goddess borne about in a wagon.
