Anglo Saxons

Eva Kaarin, Kertu, Merit

Who were the Anglo- Saxons?

Why did they come?

•Angle, Saxon and Jute tribes.

•5th and 6th centures

•Northern Germany, Denmark, northern Holland

•It was dificult to grow crops.

•Invited to england

Where did they settle?

•Most of Britain

What were Anglo- Saxons buildings like?

Where did the Anglo- Saxons live?

•In few buildings.

•2-3 families

•Wooden

•Thatched roofs

•In Suffolk buildings around larger hall, 1 room with hearth

Dress

•Varied from region to region, period.

Men and women

Knives, spears - hunting, fighting and farming.

Tools - sewing and weaving,

Freeman or slave

A freeman - land and slaves.

A slave – nothing

Richer freemen - 'thanes'.

Crime and punishment

For minor crimes - a nose or a hand might be cut off.

If a person killed someone they had to pay money to the dead person's relatives.

Early Anglo- Saxons

When people died they were either cremated and put in a pottery urn or buried with their belongings.

A king’s burial

Over the two centuries, many Saxons turned to Christianity and hundreds of churches and monasteries were built.

The coming Christianity

Monasters

The monasteries were centres of learning, where monks and nuns devoted themselves to studying the Bible.

Fests

Feld in the lord's hall

Winter months

Loyalty

Gathering around the fire for a fest

roast meats

bread, fruit

beer, mead

Entertainment

•stories about brave warriors and their adventures

•Beowulf, a heroic prince who killed several monsters

•8th to 9th centuries

•the songs and poems

•lyre

Riddles and runes

•Riddles

•letters called runes

•Magical powers

Viking invasion

•Scandinavians-Vikings

•Immigrated to Britain

•Viking raids

•Massacred

•churches destroyed

• animals and precious objects stolen

•the end of the 870s

•Vikings occupied most of eastern England• •territory- Danelaw.

Alfred the Great

•Vikings had conquered all of England except Wessex

•King Alfred of Wessex

•Alfred's descendants

The Norman Conquest

•end in 1066

•Duke William• •defeated Harold

•the Earl of Wessex

• in the Battle of Hastings

•beginning of the Norman period

• English history

Influence

•six centuries

•lasting influence on England

•Anglo-Saxon names

•Anglo-Saxon words

•system of law

Words used todayfaether - fathersunu - sondohtor - daughterchese - cheese

Anglo-Saxon place-namesford - river crossingham - settlementden - hillton - farm or villagewic - farmstead