Writes a Short  Note on

Anglo -Saxon Period ? 

Ans :  Originally  the name  Anglo Saxon denotes two of three Germanic  tribes, jutes- Anles, and Saxons who in the middle of the fifth century  left their homes on the shores of the North sea and the Baltic to conquer and  colonize distant Britain . later in that century the Angles and Saxons took over the lion share of the island of Britain . By 700 they occupied the parts of great Britain which Roman had made part of their  empire . This part became known as Englo- Land, the land of the Anglo-Saxon literature appears to be the origin of English literature .  He authorship of most of most of this literature is unknown . Only one or two names are known. The English poem .  composed by Caedmon and Bede are the earliest we know of . Their  manuscripts were  hard to read . very little were read between  middle ages and in the reign of  Queen Victoria. . Therefore, old English literature  is a part of English  literature . The  Angles, the Saxon and the jutes were illiterate . Their orally  composed verse were not written . Unless they were formed  in runic inscription . It seems that the first English poetry resembles homeric poetry  . As classical literature begins with homer,s epic, so does early  English  literature begin with beowulf . The orally composed poetry  of the Anglo- Saxon  was an established art