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Widsith, the earliest surviving example of English heroic prose, is composed. [1] 645. Approximate date – Cenwalh of Wessex abjures Christianity and repudiates his wife for which he is driven from his kingdom by his brother-in-law Penda of Mercia and goes into exile with King Anna of East Anglia. [5] 647
7th-century establishments in England (1 C, 46 P) + 7th-century church buildings in England (26 P) G. Gregorian mission (18 P) P. 7th-century English people (5 C, 40 P)
In the 8th century, Vikings began raiding England, and by the second half of the 9th century Scandinavians began to settle in eastern England. Opposing the Vikings from the south, the royal family of Wessex gradually became the dominant Anglo-Saxon kingdom and in 927 AD King Æthelstan I (reigned 927–939) was the first king to rule a single ...
Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066, a period often termed Anglo-Saxon England. [1] The 7th-century work Cædmon's Hymn is often considered as the oldest surviving poem in English, as it ...
Old English was not static, and its usage covered a period of 700 years, from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the 5th century to the late 11th century, some time after the Norman Conquest. While indicating that the establishment of dates is an arbitrary process, Albert Baugh dates Old English from 450 to 1150, a period of full ...
A prominent 19th-century example of literary dialogue was Landor's Imaginary Conversations (1821–1828). [14] In Germany, Wieland adopted this form for several important satirical works published between 1780 and 1799. In Spanish literature, the Dialogues of Valdés (1528) and those on Painting (1633) by Vincenzo Carducci are celebrated.
7th century in England (4 C, 30 P) S. 7th century in Scotland (1 C, 11 P) W. 7th century in Wales (3 C, 7 P) Pages in category "7th century in Great Britain"
In modern times, the term "Anglo-Saxons" is used by scholars to refer collectively to the Old English speaking groups in Britain. As a compound term, it has the advantage of covering the various English-speaking groups on the one hand, and to avoid possible misunderstandings from using the terms "Saxons" or "Angles" (English), both of which terms could be used either as collectives referring ...