The Exeter Book of Riddles

After having having studied Anglo Saxon kennings, read the following riddles and write your responses on a separate document and then paste them onto the blog.

http://www2.kenyon.edu/AngloSaxonRiddles/texts.htm

Move Over Sutton Hoo!

Terry Herbert, unemployed, unearths the single largest Anglo Saxon
treasure hoard in history, topping what was discovered on the Sutton Hoo
in 1939.

Here is the news article from the day of discovery justr last year:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8272058.stm

Here is a brief interview with Mr. Herbert:

The Anglo Saxon Chronicle

Relatively little is known about Anglo Saxon life and culture because the Anglo Saxons were illiterate. Here is the most comprehensive documentation of Anglo Saxon history we have, The Anglo Saxon Chronicle

The Battle of Hastings and the Bayeux Tapestry

You want to use this link to familiarize yourself with the events involving love and war that produced the language you speak

Beowulf Old English Reading

Here is a narration of the opening to the epic

Beowulf in Hypertext

Here is the link available to you online. If you left your paperback at school or at home, you can still get the reading(s) done. Yeah!!!

http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~beowulf/main.html