ENG202Y1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 48 pages long!)
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Saxons, and jutes: sometimes called anglo-saxon (bc we don"t know anything about the jutes) Old english is actually ; runes: a prayer in old english, sounds like german cos germanic lang, thorn ; th sound. Instead of hare, its here: less pure, o oh, ay ayyea. In order for that, we need more words, meaning to different things which is why english started scooping up words from different langs to make our own. Now the same prayer in modern english (17th century) sound like what we speak now. King: he says maybe if we change our god, maybe i"ll get more rewards (possibly from new god, reward for loyalty. No pursose in life and you will die: you need an overlord so you can stay hudled around the fire with the grp. There is at least one alliteration in a line (defult = x x x y) Everything was through the warriors pov: warriors were all men.
