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INTRODUCING OLD ENGLISH POETICS
August 28, 2014
Book of ExeterBehind Glass
TAKE OUT NOTEBOOK OR BINDER
8/27
The Exeter Book is a tenth-century
codex.
This bound collection of hand-written papers contains both riddles and elegies.
Old English Poetics 1-2 1. Personification:?
Weather Example:
2. Alliteration:?Animal Example:
Old English Poetics 3 3. Kenning: A metaphorical phrase or compound
word used to name a noun indirectly.Noun: person, place, thing, or event.
: Example: sea= whale road
Old English Poetics 4
4. Caesura: A pause or break within a line of poetry.
Example: To err is human; to forgive, divine.
You ken do it! Cloud A. Memories’ Keeper Ocean B. Window to the Soul Bike C. Racket Battle Computer D. Ball of Fluff Sandwich E. Infinite Lake Yearbook F. Framed Space Tennis G. Portable Meal Eye H. Mechanical Brain Door I. Wheeled-Legs
14. Write Your Own Kennings: BOAT
1. Open:
2. Possessive (‘):
3. Hyphenated(-):
15. Write Your Own Kenning
1. Open: OR 2. Possessive (‘): OR 3. Hyphenated(-):
Warm Up Riddle
When I am alive I do not speak. Anyone who wants to takes me captive and cuts off my head. They bite my bare body I do no harm to anyone unless they cut me first. Then I soon make them cry. 5
Riddle 66
I saw a creature wandering the way:
She was devastating-beautifully adorned.
On the wave a miracle: water turned to bone.
Riddle 45
A moth ate songs-wolfed words!
That seemed a weird dish-that a worm
Should swallow, dumb thief in the dark,
The songs of a man, his chants of glory,
Their place of strength. That thief-guest 5
Was no wiser for having swallowed words.
Write Your Own Riddle
5 Points
3 Sentences = 3 Points
2 of 4 Literary Elements = 2 PointsCIRCLED OR UNDERLINED, PLEASE!!!
Example
I am a sturdy support.
I have legs, but no animal am I.
I am a weight-bearer but do not weigh much.
What am I?
DUE TOMORROW
Anglo-Saxon Study Guide
Riddle
The study guide will be checked for points; the riddle will be collected.
Please write SHARE next to your riddle if you are comfortable with the class solving it.
BEOWULF Vocabulary Option 1: Class set of dictionaries
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary
Option 2: Merriam-Webster websiteM-w.com
Option 2: Download the app!Search Merriam Webster
#7 Reparation: Second Definition #8 Mail: Fourth Definition #9 to Purge: First of Second A Definition
8/28 Sutton Hoo (England) is the site of two 6th and
early 7th century cemeteries.
The burial mound contains an undisturbed ship burial full of Anglo-Saxon artifacts.
Solution for Riddle 32:?Personification: Line ? Example?Alliteration: Line ? Example?Kenning: Line ? Example?Caesura Line ? Example?
Riddle 32Our world is lovely in different ways.
Hung with beauty and works of hand.
I saw a strange machine, made
For motion, slide against the sand,
Shrieking as it went. It walked swiftly 5
On its only foot, this odd-shaped monster,
Traveled in an open country, without
Seeing ,without arms or hands,
With many ribs, and its mouth in its middle.
Its work is useful, and welcome, for it loads 10
Its belly with food, and brings abundance
To men, to poor and to rich, paying
Its tribute year after year. Solve
This riddle, if you can, and unravel its name.
Sutton Hoo
8/28 Anglo-Saxon Study Guide
Riddles
Riddle 27I saw a wonderful creature carrying
Light plunder between its horns.
Curved lamp of the air, cunningly formed,
It fetched home its bounty from the day's raid
And plotted to build in its castle if it could 5
A night-chamber brightly adorned.
Then over the east wall came another creature
Well known to earth-dwellers. Wonderful as well,
It seized back its bounty and sent the plunderer home
Like an unwilling wanderer. The wretch went west,10
Moved morosely and murderously on.
Dust rose to the heavens, dew fell on earth-
Night moved on. Afterwards no one
In the world knew where the wanderer had gone.
Mnemonic Device: Knuckles = 31 days
8/29
A mnemonic device is any learning technique that aids information retention.
The word derives from an Ancient Greek word meaning "of memory.”
Commonly Confused Words EX1a. Accept: to receive
EX1b. Except: to leave out
See the board for EXMD.
“Around the Room” Review 12A
1. Anglo-Saxon Study GuideHistoryVocabulary
2. Commonly Confused WordExercises 8&9
3. Old English PoeticsKenningsRiddles
○ Optional
“Around the Room” Review 12
1. Anglo-Saxon Study GuideHistory
2. Commonly Confused WordExercises 8&9
3. Beowulf TrailerWarm Up Riddle(s)
Anglo-Saxon Helmet
8/27 Bell Ringer
Old English was spoken by the Anglo-Saxons from approximately 450 to 1150.
Beowulf is the oldest surviving poem in
the English language.
Part 1: Old English Affixes Part 1: Anglo-Saxon Suffixes Names of Locations
Example: Washington○ ING=?○ TON=?
The village of Wash’s people Write down at least one location.
Part 2: Old English Translation
Phonetics is the study and classification of speech sounds.
Use your eyes and your ears to figure out the phrase.
Part 2. Old English Translation
Swurd ? Brid ? Faeder ? Wudu ? Modor ? Brothor ? Hund ? Scild ? Swoster ?
Old English Translation
1. Hwær is se hring? Where is the ring?
Old English Translation
Hwaet hring? What ring?
Old English Translation
Hwær eart þu? (þ=thorn or th)?
Where art thou?/Where are you?
Old English Translation
Hwy stande ge idele? Why are you standing idle?
Old English Translation
Hwa is se cyning? (C = K) Who is the king?
???Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum;
Si þin nama gehalgod
to becume þin rice
gewurþe ðin willa
on eorðan swa swa on heofonum.
urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg
and forgyf us ure gyltas
swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendum
and ne gelæd þu us on costnunge
ac alys us of yfele soþlice
Translation Father our thou that art in heavens be thy name hallowed come thy kingdom be-done thy will on earth as in heavens our daily bread give us today and forgive us our sins as we forgive those-who-have-sinned-against-us and not lead thou us into temptation but deliver us from evil. truly
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