Old English Period

7 important questions on Old English Period

What role does the importane of establishing identity play in Beowulf?

As BW is essentially a record of heroic deeds, the oncept of identity - of which the two principal components are ancestral heritage and individual reputation - is clearly central to the poem.
- Opening passages introduce a world in which every male figure is known as his father's son. Conern with family history is so prominent because of the poem's emphasis on kinsip bonds. Take prinde inancestors who have acted valiantly.
- A good reputation is the key to soldifying and augementing one's identity.

When was the Middle English Period?

1066-1500

What was typical for Middle English poetry?

It had ryhme
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In which middle English poetry was this shown?

? The Canterbury Tales, from Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1340 -1400).

What are the Canterbury Tales?

? A frame story about a group of twenty-nine pilgrims who meet at a London inn. The pilgrims are on a pilgrimage to the grave of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury. The Innkeeper is to accompany them and act as a judge. Each pilgrim was to tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and two on the way back. Work remained unfinished. Contains 24 tales apart from prologue.

How did the standardization of the English language develop?

-In middle age (Old English period and Middle English period combined) there was no such thing as standard English à Every region had its own dialect.
-Not until 15th century dialect of London came to be adopted as a kind of standard.
-This dialect has developed into the English that you are reading now.

Who was one of the first to write in East midland dialect?

Chaucer, was his own dialect.

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