1. Basis of modern english
The history of English in ten minutes: The Anglosaxons: a video
The Ages of English
What types of words did the Anglo-Saxons give the English language?

2. Important dates 43AD Romans (Claudius) invade Britain (Britannia).
Encountered Celtic tribes, Britons and Picts ( North)
Romans built roads, villas, huge buildings, forts, cities like Londinium, Evoracum ( York), Aquae Sulis (Bath) and sanitation system.
Introduced Christianity and lots of Latin words.
410AD Roman Empire falls, Romans leave Britain
450AD Jutes and the Angles and Saxons from Denmark or Northern Germany invade England.
Germanic tribes. (polytheism)
Anglo-Saxons push out Celts
597AD Anglo-Saxons become Christian (Saint Augustine)

3. Religion
While Southern parts of England were Christian thanks to influence of Romans, Northern tribes remained pagan (believed in many gods)
Angles and Saxons were pagan until 597
This influenced early English culture
Literature had both Christian and pagan elements
Early English Christian documents surviving from this time include the 7th-century illuminated Lindisfarne Gospels and the historical accounts written by the Venerable Bede. Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (731)

4. The anglo-saxons

5. Who were the jutes/angles/saxons
They were tribes from modern-day Denmark
They came to England in the 5th Century ( south)
Jutes, together with the Angles and the Saxons, make up the migrant groups to England who are now collectively known as Anglo-Saxons
They were used as slaves by the Romans
Jutes were wiped out by the Saxons.

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7. Old english literature
It mixed Latin and vernacular language, mainly religious. Importance of oral tradition.
Old manuscripts ( 9th-11th): Exeter, Vercelli book
Poetry: alliterative verse, Kenning, litotes .
Epic poetry ‘Beowulf’ ‘The Seafarer’
Prose: The Anglosaxon Cronicle, Anglosaxon riddles
Religious books: Wessex Gospels
Authors: Bede, King Alfred the Great, Cædmon

8. Vikings!
865 – come from Scandinavia to invade Britain, destroy monasteries
Vikings rule in England until 1042, mixed with the Anglosaxons.
Fun fact – Vikings spread as far as the Byzantine Empire, where they were hired as dogs
Set up a capital at Jorvik (York) Jorvik centre
The whole of England was unified with Norway and Denmark in the eleventh century, during the reign of the Danish king Cnut, succeeded by the Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor

9. Norman conquest
Most important of all the “invasions” into England after the Romans left , why?? ( Domesday Book, French- Latin, elimination of slavery, Norman castles.
Start of Middle English.
1066 – Normans ( William the Conqueror) beat the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings
King Harold, King of the Anglo-Saxons is killed
Normans take over the country from Anglo-Saxons