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Historical overview:

Historical overview:. Anglo-Saxon/Old English Period. Bell Journal:. What do you know about Anglo-Saxon or Old English Period? What are they stereotypes related to this time period? What historical facts do you know about this time period?. Before 449 A.D.

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Historical overview:

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  1. Historical overview: Anglo-Saxon/Old English Period

  2. Bell Journal: • What do you know about Anglo-Saxon or Old English Period? • What are they stereotypes related to this time period? • What historical facts do you know about this time period?

  3. Before 449 A.D. • Britain was a province of the Roman Empire for more than three centuries. • Early in the 400s the Roman Empire, collapsing in on itself, pulled out of Britain. • The peoples left behind, the Britons or Celts, were left more or less helpless without the Roman army to protect them. • Picts from the north and Scots from the west savagely attacked the unprotected British Celts.

  4. 449 A.D. • The Britons called for help from Rome, and got only a single legion, which hardly helped at all. • In desperation, the Britons called the Saxons to their aid against the Pictish and Scottish aggressors. • In 449, the first Saxons arrived in Britain to fight off the Pictsand Scots…and then proceeded to subjugate and dispossess the Britons whom they had theoretically come to help.

  5. After 449 A.D. • These first Saxons sent word back to the Germanic nations, essentially suggesting that Britain was ripe for the picking. • More Saxons came, along with the Angles, the Jutes, and the Frisians, thus changing Britain’s population to English speakers (rather than Celts and Britons). This was the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon period.

  6. Important Events • 597—St. Augustine comes to England and brings Latin influences and Roman Christianity with him. • Circa 750—The version of Beowulf that survives is composed. • 793—Vikings (Scandinavians) begin the first of many raids on the Anglo-Saxon kingdom. • 865—Vikings occupy northeastern Britain and keep fighting with the Anglo-Saxons. • Circa 975—Anglo-Saxon verse (poetry) is collected in the Exeter Book.

  7. Important Events • 991-1042—Danish dynasty rules in Britain. **Northmen • Circa 1000—The version of Beowulf that survives is written down. • 1066—the last of the Anglo-Saxon kings (Harold) was killed at the Battle of Hastings and William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, was crowned king of England on December 25.

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