10.  What are the Cynewulf poems?  Describe any that you have read.  How do they compare in spirit and in expression with Beowulf? with Caedmon?  Read The Phoenix (which is a translation from the Latin) in Brooke’s History of Early English Literature, or in Gollancz’s Exeter Book, or in Cook’s Translations from Old English Poetry, and tell what elements you find to show that the poem is not of Anglo-Saxon origin.  Compare the views of nature in Beowulf and in the Cynewulf poems.

11.  Describe the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.  What is its value in our language, literature, and history?  Give an account of Alfred’s life and of his work for literature.  How does Anglo-Saxon prose compare in interest with the poetry?

                              CHRONOLOGY
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  HISTORY | LITERATURE
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449(?).  Landing of Hengist and |
        Horsa in Britain |
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477.  Landing of South Saxons |
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547.  Angles settle Northumbria | 547.  Gildas’s History
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597.  Landing of Augustine and his |
      monks.  Conversion of Kent |
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617.  Eadwine, king of Northumbria |
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635-665.  Coming of St. Aidan. |
      Conversion of Northumbria | 664.  Caedmon at Whitby
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                                   | 673-735.  Bede
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                                   | 750 (cir.).  Cynewulf
                                   | poems
867.  Danes conquer Northumbria |
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871.  Alfred, king of Wessex | 860.  Anglo-Saxon Chronicle begun
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878.  Defeat of Danes.  Peace of |
       Wedmore |
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901.  Death of Alfred | 991.  Last known poem of the
                                   | Anglo-Saxon
                                   | period, The Battle of
                                   | Maldon, otherwise called
                                   | Byrhtnoth’s Death
1013-1042.  Danish period |
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1016.  Cnut, king |
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1042.  Edward the Confessor.  Saxon |
        period restored |
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1049.  Westminster Abbey begun |
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1066.  Harold, last of Saxon kings. |
        Norman Conquest |
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