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CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) grim the war-wood rattles, Shield to shaft is answering.^20 The fig ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) more of their literature it is well to glance briefly at their life ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) of Britain; and since then it has been in general use among En- gli ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) names for the sea, from theholm, that is, the horizon sea, the "upm ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) to the songs of Scop and Gleeman,–men who could put into adequate w ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) we know we are dealing with an essentially noble man, not a savage; ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) instance, is a fragment of the simple story of the conquest of Brit ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) inherited by them from their old heroic and conquering an- cestors. ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) CHRISTIAN WRITERS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD The literature of this ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) center was the monasteries and abbeys, such as Jarrow and Whitby, a ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) itive peoples to magnify the works of their heroes, and so deeds of ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) There was, in the monastery of the Abbess Hilda, a brother distingu ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) In the morning he went to the steward of the monastery lands and sh ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) by him has come down to us. In the seventeenth century this Anglo-S ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) Gliding on, a grove of spears;–glittering the hosts! Fluttered ther ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) the only one of our early poets who signed his works, the name was ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) together, and contains some hymns of great beauty and many passages ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) DECLINE OF NORTHUMBRIAN LITERATURE. The same northern energy which ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) said, that whilst I live I wish to live nobly, and after life to le ...

CHAPTER II. THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050) best books for their instruction. Every poor scholar was hon- ored ...