Unit One: From Legend to History

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Unit One From Legend to History

• Anglo-Saxon Literature

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What did Anglo-Saxons Value?

• Religion
• Religion helped unify the cultures.
• Religion gave them a similar identity.
• Leaders
• Their successes were honored with epithets.
• Land and Power
• They continually invaded and conquered to
  acquire more land. (land power)
• Bravery/Prowess/Trust
• Honored heroes with gifts, oaths of allegiance,
  or power of leadership (and eventually legacy of
  lit.)

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Beowulf

• The First English Epic

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Refresh Your Reading Skills

• Use context clues and marginal notes
• Consider the cultural connections
• Paraphrase
• Summarize
• Apply literary terms
• Prepare to take notes over the first chapter,The
  Monster Grendel.

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Divide Your Paper into Two Columns under the
titleThe Monster Grendel.

• Paraphrase

• Summary

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The Monster Grendel

• Paraphrase
• A monster in the darkness growls impatiently
  against the scops song, a song that reminds
  mankind how God created the Earth, separated land
  from oceans, created the sun and moon, and
  inhabited it with natural beauty and people who
  loved it then as they do now. Just like their
  forefathers, Hrothgars men lived happily until
  this monster, Grendel, stirred. Grendel, who
  haunts the moors and the wilderness, lives in a
  hell on earth as an outcast. He is a distant
  descendent of Cain, mans first murderer who was
  banished by God and eventually bred evil in the
  world. Cains descendents became the spirits,
  fiends, goblins, and other forms of evil that
  forever oppose Gods Will and are continually
  defeated.

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The Monster Grendel

• Summary
• Grendel, a descendent of Cains demon spawn,
  growls in anger while the scop recounts Grendels
  wicked heritage for Hrothgars men.

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Conclude your notes for pages 21-23
independently. Check your work with a classmate
when announced.
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Now its time to transition from reading
for general comprehension to reading with
critical thinking skills such asapplication of
cultural details and recognition of literary
devices.
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Literary Devices

• Epic and Epic Conventions (6)
• Opening statement of the theme
• Appeal for supernatural help in the telling of
  the story (an invocation)
• A beginning in medias res
• Long lists, or catalogs, of people and things
• Accounts of past events
• Descriptive phrases such as kennings, Homeric
  similes, and Homeric epithets (such as
  wide-wayed city and clear-voiced heralds in
  the Iliad)

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Additional Literary Devices(Apply the terms in
bold print define all terms as homework)

• Epic
• Epic conventions
• Epithet
• Allegory
• Allusion
• Archetype

• Caesura
• Kenning
• Alliteration
• Lyric Poetry
• Narrative Poetry
• Scop

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Discussion of The Monster GrendelRecognizing
and ApplyingCultural Connections

• The narrators word choices make reference to two
  types of people. Who are they? (cultural
  connection)
• Answers pagans and Christians
• Which belief system or heritage influences the
  narrator?
• Answer a Christian influence
• Describe the narrators tone (or attitude) toward
  the subject of God?
• Answer God is spoken of with reverence,
  helping us to see he is a Christian, and perhaps
  more modern, narrator who wrote down the epic.

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The Monster GrendelRecognizing and Applying
Literary Terms

• Summary
• Grendel, a descendent of Cains demon spawn,
  growls in anger while the scop recounts Grendels
  wicked heritage for Hrothgars men.
• Scop/Cultural Element (lines 4-5, p. 21) the
  harps rejoicing/Call and the poets clear songs,
  . . .
• Cain and Abel, God Christian elements (lines
  21-23) Grendel parents are descendents of
  Cain, murderous creatures banished/By God . . .
• The Almighty (line 24) the Lords Will (line
  28-29) Christian elements

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Now Modify Your Notes.Rename the columns with
the headings listed.The Arrival of the Hero

• Summary

• Literary Terms

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The Arrival of the Hero

• Summary

• Literary Terms

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Unferths Challenge

• Summary

• Literary Terms

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The Battle with Grendel

• Summary

• Literary Terms

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The Monsters Mother

• Summary

• Literary Terms

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Now that you understand how to read
Anglo-Saxon literature and how to apply literary
terms, you are capable of tackling college-level
reading and writing assignments.Well done!!!
DCHS
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