Presentazione Essenziale

THE ORIGINS

Beowulf

Viking's invasion

Anglo-saxon invasion

First roman invasion

The romans built towns

Celts come to england

700 BC

55 BC

50 BC

AD 455

AD 700

AD 700-750

The celts used a runic alphabet for writing and for magic

The celts came from Germany and lived in tribes

The celts

The romans built towns and roads and introduced the latin culture

The romans

The anglo-saxon had an oral tradition, passed on by scops and bard

They were a mixture of germanic tribes

The anglo-saxon

They came from denmark and norway and began their conquest in the 8th century

Vikings

It is set in the 6th centuryhe represents the authentic hero

Beowulf

Cristian scribes transformed the oral tradition into the written form

Epic poem