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Old English poetry is of two types, the heroic Germanic pre-Christian and the Christian. It has survived for the most part in four manuscripts.
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Cædmon (IPA: [kædmɒn]) is the earliest English poet whose name is known.
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BEOWULF comes from the OLD ENGLISH or ANGLO-SAXON Literary and Historical period of what was then ancient Britannia. This period of Old English extends from about 450 to 1066, the year of the Norman-French conquest of England led by William of Normandy
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BEOWULF-various translation of the work
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William the Conqueror was born in 1027 or 1028. He was the illegitimate some of Robert I, sixth duke of Normandy, and Herleve, a daughter of a non-noble. When his father died in 1035 (while still a child) he became the ruler of Normandy. His early years w
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William the Conqueror took England and Anglo-Norman became the official language, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles generally ceased. The monks of Peterborough Abbey, however, continued to compile events in theirs.
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Time line of Kings and Queens of Enlgand to 1603
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Lord's Prayer
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Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard,
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T H E C A N T E R B U R Y T A L E S and other works Picture of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer (1342 - 1400)
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