The Anglo-Saxon World : An AnthologyOxford Worlds Classics
Poem quoted at the end of the excerpt is: “The Ruin”, translated by K. Crossley-Holland, The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology, Oxford World’s Classics, 2009.
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J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien, an English writer and philologist, is renowned for his creation of Middle-earth and his contributions to modern fantasy literature. A professor at Oxford University, Tolkien’s passion for mythology and language led him to create a world that would captivate...
Foundation of an Anglo-Saxon church on the Heugh, the rocky ridge above the 12th-century ruins of Lindisfarne Priory. Discovered in recent excavations (2016-2018), this may have been part of the original monastery founded by St Aidan in 635. ...
The word Wicca (originally pronounced “Witcha”) was an anglo-saxon word, not Celtic (Scottish being Celtic), a Germanic rather than a Gaelic language group, perhaps suggesting more Germanic roots for European Witchcraft than Celtic (Sorry, Enya! LOL). Another Germanic group, the Norse, had ...
For novices, looking at Old English poetry in an anthology is a good place to begin familiarizing yourself with the world of Anglo-Saxon poetry. However, it is a good idea to learn a little bit about the characteristics of the literature before you start to read. There are some key chara...
The Anglo-Saxon ‘write’ denoted the activity of cutting, scoring, scratching or incising marks into wood, stone or other solid surfaces. The modern word ‘write’ has a twofold meaning—both the primary sense of marking the surface of paper (or other material) with script, and the secondar...
This was the first attempt at printing Anglo-Saxon, and uses a specially designed type, incorporating characters like thorn (Þ) and eth (ð) which do not occur in the standard Roman alphabet. Such effort and money was put into the reproduction because it was both politically and ...
was happy to support his sister as sole ruler of Mercia. She was the first woman to rule an Anglo-Saxon kingdom – albeit as a client of her brother’s more powerful kingdom of Wessex. It can be argued that she was not declared queen because Mercia was no longer a kingdom, but she...