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Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxon. Language. The Human Mind is steeped in Metaphor. As words emerged to name experience—and as they continue to emerge—what else do we have for the naming, but connections to other places and experiences?. Pandemonium. Milton made up this word for the chaos of hell

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Anglo-Saxon

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  1. Anglo-Saxon Language

  2. The Human Mind is steeped in Metaphor • As words emerged to name experience—and as they continue to emerge—what else do we have for the naming, but connections to other places and experiences?

  3. Pandemonium • Milton made up this word for the chaos of hell • Linking “pan” (Greek for “all” • With the word “demons”

  4. To Meander • Named after the river Meandros in Asia Minor • Astronaut = “star” and “sailor” • Curfew = “cover” and “fire”—medieval laws required villagers to cover their fires at night to prevent burning the town down

  5. Anglo-Saxon’s and Metaphorical Thinking • Anglo-Saxon’s didn’t think much differently than us when it comes to words and metaphors. This is evidenced in their use of kennings and their love of riddles.

  6. Kennings • Anglo-Saxon literature, seen in Beowulf, is steeped in it’s own literary “mini-riddles” • A kenning is metaphorical phrase or compound word used instead of the name of a person, place, or thing. • For example, Grendel is called the “Shepard of evil” (line 403). • Kennings are closely related to riddles.

  7. Solve the following Kennings: “the whale-road”_________________________________ “the sea paths”___________________________________ “God’s bright beacon”_____________________________ “Heaven’s high arch”_______________________________

  8. The Exeter Book • Little of the Anglo-Saxon literature survived the destruction of the Vikings and the burning of the monasteries by Henry the VIII. • One work that did survive was the Exeter Book, a tenth century manuscript that includes several Old English works. In this are several riddles. • These riddles were probably told to pass the time. They are dated up to about 1066 AD.

  9. On the way a miracle; water becomes bone.

  10. My home is not quiet but I am not loud. The lord has meant us to journey together. I am faster than he and sometimes stronger, But he keeps on going for longer. Sometimes I rest but he runs on. For as long as I am alive I live in him. If we part from one another It is I who will die.

  11. I am all on my own, Wounded by iron weapons and scarred by swords. I often see battle. I am tired of fighting. I do not expect to be allowed to retire from warfare Before I am completely done for. At the wall of the city, I am knocked about And bitten again and again. Hard edged things made by the blacksmith's hammer attack me. Each time I wait for something worse. I have never been able to find a doctor who could make me better Or give me medicine made from herbs. Instead the sword gashes all over me grow bigger day and night.

  12. Old English • Anglo-Saxon’s spoke a form of English two major vowel shifts away from our own called Old English. It would hardly be recognizable as English today. • Listen to the following poem in Old English. Try to solve it by watching the captions.

  13. Runes • Anglo-Saxons sometimes used thefutharkalphabet—ornamentally on weapons or signs • These were thought to have magical protection powers • Runes are the characters of the alphabet used by the Vikings and other Germanic peoples from about the second to the 15th centuries A.D. • All had meaning to the Vikings, who carved them into their so-called rune stones—large monuments that honor the memory, and the names, of Norsemen past.

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