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Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians . . .

 

A.D. 449

 

Anglo-Saxon migrations in AD 400s   

Source: Notuncurious, Wikipiedia user name

 

Source: BBC

 

 

 

Saxons

 

A leader of the Britons, King Vortigern, greets the Saxon brothers Hengest and Horsa as they land in England

  

 

The Saxons

 

Episode from the documentary series Barbarians

 

Begins in 380 A. D.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuM4Auxml98&feature=related

 

 

 

Vortigern

 

First of 30 episodes of the series Anglo-Saxon Portraits on the BBC radio program The Essay

 

July 28, 2014

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nb0ct#play

 

 

 

 

King Arthur in Christian Heroes Tapestry
( ca. 1385)

 

 

In Search of Arthur

 

1979 episode from the BBC documentary series In Search of the Dark Ages with Michael Wood

 

The legend of King Arthur, a legendary Celtic king in England at the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the 400s or 500s, was created much later.   

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1tuU021TMw

 

 

 

Britain A. D. 

 

Last three episoses of the 2004 documentary series A History of Britain with Francis Pryor

 

Episode 1. King Arthur's Britain

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLpgVEfy4mQ

 

Episode 2. The Not So Dark Ages

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh3laV8ttQ8

 

Episode 3. The Invasion that Never Was

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQrWCEMO7mE&feature=related

 

 

 

Genetic History of Britain

 

 

Source: Nature

 

 

 

Face of Britain

 

Three-part 2006 documentary with Neil Oliver

 

Identifying the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Norse origins of the British through DNA

 

Anglo-Saxons, Danish Vikings and Normans shared the same DNA; Norse DNA is found in Norway and the Orkneys 

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge16y6v-3lM

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge16y6v-3lM

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOFw_J5Uec4

 

 

 

 


Arthur

King of the Britons

Presented by Richard Harris

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI5MlEZSHdw


King Arthur

TED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBsY88Lir-A


King Arthur's Britain

Britain AD

Francis Pryor

Part 1 of 3

King Arthur s Britain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_OENv1owyg&t=869s

Part 2

Not So Dark Ages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfc4JEKqsKw

Part 3

The Invasion that Never Was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07QoaB3Becc&t=60s

 
 
 

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                 Germanic Languages 

 

germanic_language_family

 



 

Germanic Language Family

 

description of the development of Germanic Languages

 

5 clips:

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L48J65aC7A0

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeklZjTCGu8

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhUD0MAQcIE

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkG9letbiVs

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u535GvtZ05c

 

 

1. Gothic Language

 

Overview

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkKrS5yOPFI

 

 

2. Anglo-Saxon (Old English)

 

Overview 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLJGTYkEKLI

 

 

The Franks Casket 

 

The right side of the Franks (Auzon/Clermont) Casket from the early 700s with Anglo-Saxon runes (600s) (Bargello Museum, Florence, Italy)

 

For a translation of the runes, see:

 

http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/FranksCasket.html

 

In Focus: Franks Casket

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVXnVKBGHG8

 

Lecture by Dr Meg Boulton at the University of York. February 3, 2015


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21NKN78-igk

 

 

 

Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet

 

The Old Ebglish alphabet had 26 to 33 letters

 

Anglo-Saxon Futhorc

 

 

  

Old English Writing and Pronunciation

 

1. Pronunciation

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs--wqVdBwo&feature=related

 

 

2. Grammar, common phrases

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcfqgR4dHgg&feature=related

 

 

3. People and Family

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HqelUyN7G0&feature=related

 

 

 

3. Old High German Languages

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC_BTrC_uNU

 

 

 

 

 
 
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Source: Sabio Lantz

Chronology of the British Isles and the English language

ca. A. D. 450/500 - 1100  -  Old English (Anglo-Saxon)

ca. 1100 - 1500  -  Middle English

ca. 1500 - 1650/1700/1800  -  Early Modern English

ca. 1650/1700/1800 - Today  -  (Late) Modern English

 

 

 
 
 

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A History of the English Language

 

1943 instructional film presented by the British Consul

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJiHmR85cU&feature=related

 

 

 

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The Story of English

 

with Robert MacNeil

 

Part 2. Old English

 

Indo-Europeans, Celts and Germans  -  The Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and the Norman Conquest  -  from 449 to 1066 A. D.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3q95Mg2i7c

 

Or in 7 clips

 

1. Indo-Europeans, Celts, Angles, Jutes, Frisians, Saxons

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UG6vHXArlk&feature=related

 

2. Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Beowulf, Vikings, Alfred the Great

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3lV7_d7m-I&feature=related

 

3. Saxons and Vikings

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuyEXotPRxM&feature=related

 

4. Saxons, Vikings and the Norman Conquest

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNZVSbQcpCI&feature=related

 

5. Norman Conquest and Middle English to 1470; Chaucer

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZcjkIXLZCw&feature=related

 

6. Canterbury Tales

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ5UUOtkAX0&feature=related

 

7. Early Modern English, Shakespeare

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5GH2rho-xo&feature=related 

 

 

 

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The Adventure of English

 

500 to 2000 AD

 

8-part 2003 documentary presented by Melvyn Bragg (host of BBC Radio's weekly program In Our Time)

 

Part 1. Birth of a Language

 

On the Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and Viking influences

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsVz5U76kX0

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2I7x-MxP-A

 

 

 

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Lectern 8
 
The History of English
 
Lectures by Jürgen Handke (2012, 2014) 

1. An Overview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8tEPXI25A

2. From Indo-European to Old English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlercYYY_VA

3. The Old English Period

A. D. 450/500/600 - 1100

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqRukG4inPY

4. The Sound System of Old English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2fd22bXooI

5. Old English Syntax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un2uBX8ayUI

6. Old English Morphology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_yEa7tIbGA

 

 

 
 
 

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Introduction of Christianity to the British Isles after the Roman withdrawal

 

St. Patrick of Ireland, Pope Gregory the Great and St. Augustine of Canterbury 

 

 

A Celtic Cross

Celtic cross of St. Patrick

 

 

How the Celts Saved Britain -

A New Civilisation

 

2-part 2009 BBC documentary with Dan Snow recounts the spread of Christianity to Ireland

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxzM_Y0cYJA

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIBkv7pU9Eo

 

 

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Icon of Pope Gregory with St. Augustine, Canterbury Cathedral

 

 

St. Augustine

 

Episode 3 of 30 episodes of the series Anglo-Saxon Portraits on the BBC radio program The Essay

 

St. Augustine, a Benedictine monk from Italy, was the first Archbishop of Canterbury (ca. 597 - 604) 

 

Presented by Rowen Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

 

October 17, 2012

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nb0sr#play

 

and

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b01nb0sr

 

 

St. Augustine of Canterbury

 

Talk by Fr. Marcus Holden

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faz-nufQ_is

 

 

 

Classic-Lectern 

 

 

Britain and Ireland

 

Lecture # 12 by Paul Freedman from the course The Early Middle Ages, 284 - 1000 (HIST 210), Yale U., Fall 2011

 

- Introduction to the British Isles

- The Conversion of England

- The Conversion of Ireland and the Irish Church

- Closing Remarks

 

You Tube:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roe_auEG31k&feature=relmfu

 

Yale U.:

 

http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-210/lecture-12

 

Transcript:
 


 

 

 

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English Literature

 

 

Anglo-Saxon (Old English)

 

Mid-400s and the mid-1100s

 

 

 

  

 

 

Caedmon's Hymn

 

658 - 680

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29v_adW9dn0

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAZyc8M5Q4I&feature=related

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SRmtbu0iXQ

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz9ReQbD-C0

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhKcXrCkzCM

 

 

A blogger on Bede and Caedmon's Hymn

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FDwTR3ZqU4

 

 

 

 

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Bede (672/3 – 735), monk in Northumbria, "Father of English History"

 

 

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Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

 

(Ecclesiastical History of the English People)

 

By the Venerable Bede (672/3 – 735) ("The Father of English History") in 731, was translated into Anglo-Saxon in the 900s

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2xBT9xyslo&feature=relmfu

 

Extract:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9u243QirRY&feature=related


 

The Venerable Bede

Discussion on the weekly BBC radio program In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg  (November 25, 2004)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y26h

 

Bede, the Father of English History

 

Episode 12 of 30 of the series Anglo-Saxon Portraits on the BBC radio program The Essay

 

January 2, 2013

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pz17d#play

 

 

 

 

 

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Old English reading of an entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 975 AD

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaCjqf3_T6M

 

 

 

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Battle of Maldon - Byrhtnoth's Challenge

 

in Old English

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI_KFv0W9bg

 

 

 

 

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The Lord's Prayer (Fæder ure) in Anglo Saxon (Old English)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQVyol7N1Jo&feature=related

 

 

 

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Beowulf

 

 

The long poem was written in Anglo-Saxon in England ca. A. D. 1000. The tale could be as old as A. D. 650. 

 

The poem recounts the heroic feats of Beowulf, a leader of the Gaets, a tribe in the area of present-day Gothenburg in Sweden.

 

Beowulf goes to Denmark to rid the country of Grendel, the savage half-human monster. After slaying Grendel he slays Grendel's vengeful mother. 

 

Beowulf is King of the Gaets for next 50 years.

 

Beowulf slays a dragon that is terrorizing the countryside and suffers fatal wounds in the fight.

 

 

Regions and tribes in the poem Beowulf

 

 

 

 

Excerpt from episode 1 of the BBC documentary series Seven Ages of Britain

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsUM1qk2y_o

 

 

 

Beowulf

 

Episode 1 of the eighth season of the documentary series The Clash of the Gods

  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYeYKQADNXg

 

 
 

Cartoon

 

Full Tale (1998)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKjcoFZmKuA

 

Or in 6 clips:

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ_N3XH3ntI&feature=related

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg4tXzIT2F4&feature=related

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxWb_AXeS2I&feature=related

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B28kRgCZjk&feature=related

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fcsocZyzY0&feature=related

 

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeDDUt_O8Go&feature=related

 

 

Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxons

 

Documentary 

 

(7 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3hjjaUQiVA&feature=related

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhKBY5WgECY&feature=related

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3aHMj4X08Y&feature=related

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1cAME01lX0&feature=related

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZisY7tBjHOI&feature=related

 

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38On_Wvg9CQ&feature=related

 

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL-ZLVk0f5A&feature=related

 

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu6OXsyJghk&feature=related

 

   

Front page of  the Cotton MS Vitellius A XV

manuscript in the British Library.

 

 

 

The story of Beowulf is known only from this

single untitled manuscript, thought to have

been written in England ca. A. D. 1000.`

 

The poem is in the West Saxon and Anglian

dialects of Anglo-Saxon (Old English).

 

The story, or the poem, could be as old as

A. D. 650.

 

 

In Search of Beowulf

 

2007 BBC documentary with Michael Wood explores the Scandanavian legend of Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxon poem about it 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C0sFXU0SLo

 

   

 

Beowulf

 

Discussion on the weekly BBC radio program In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg and guests (March 5, 2015)

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0542xt7#auto

 

 

 

Beowulf

 

IntelliQuest World's 100 Greatest Books (1995)

   

Audio

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-bha8ghyyo 

 

 

 

Beowulf

 

Lecture # 11 of 48 from the course The History of World Literature by Grant Voth for Great Courses

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMAyevJi2Mo

 

 

 

Beowulf & Grendel

 

2005 British-Canadian-Icelandic movie  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1QDTFFmqKg

 

 

 

Beowulf

 

2007 3-D Hollywood movie with animation

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQZ6cR4mp6Y

 

 

 

Only excerpts of the poem recorded in Anglo-Saxon are available on the Internet at present.  

 

 

In Anglo-Saxon (Old English)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B9kppHPo28&feature=related

 

 

Over the years the poem has been translated many times. Translations differ. At present there are a few recordings of readings of translations in Modern English of the entire poem. Most recordings are of excerpts. 

  

 

The Slaying of Grendel

 

by Julian Glover   

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR464WBmA2s

 

 

 

Beowulf

 

A recording of the entrie poem translated and read in Modern English by Seamus Heaney

 

Part 1 or 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaB0trCztM0

 

Part 2 of 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsxxg5P-DnY 

 

 

 

 

This website offers the entire poem in Anglo-Saxon and a translation into Modern English

 

Begin here:

 

http://northvegr.org/sagas%20annd%20epics/epic%20poetry/beowulf/index.html 

 

 

Another website

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16328/16328-h/16328-h.htm

 

 

 

  

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Offa, King of the Mercians
 
Offa was the King of Mercia in Anglo-Saxon England from 757 to 796.
 
Offa built Offa's Dyke, a great dyke which runs along the border berween England and Wales.
 
 
 
 
Two coins with Offa
 
 
In Search of Offa
 
1979 episode from rhe BBC documentary series In Search of the Dark Ages with Michael Wood
 
 
 

Offa, King of the Mercians
 
Episode 15 of 30 of the series Anglo-Saxon Portraits on the BBC radio program The Essay
 
January 25, 2013
 
 
 
 
 
















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