64 Epic: long narrative poems that celebrated the adventures of
legendary heroes.
64 Epics provide tales of adventure but also how to behave in
properly in all kinds of situations
64 Gilgamesh and Iliad: Gil. Is Near Eastern poem 400 years,
Iliad is Greek poem 3,000
65 Gil. Made Uruk (Sumerian city) and Anu and Ishtar (gods of
sky and love Babylonian)
Son if Wildcow Ninsun
65-66 “Vanguard and rear guard of army, two thirds god and one
third man” Beowulf is never defined as a god but it’s implied
Iliad
67 Achilleus(Greek) friend Patroklos is killed by Hector(Trogen)
67 Athene (daughter of Zeus) guards the Greeks
67-70 Hector acts very noble and honorable, wants to make oaths
but Achillies is full of anger and bitterness
68 Athene cheats Hector with his spear throw and Deiphobos is
not near him to get another spear
Bede (works in British
monastery)
74 Lays out basic
76 Good resources and organized civilization, short summer
nights, summer days and winter nights are long
77 Britons came from France, Picts from southeastern Europe
arrived in Ireland,
77 Scots told them to go to Britain and gave them women, but
when quarrel happens they choose a king from the female royal line rather than
the male,
78 Ireland has better climate with little snow, no reptiles
and they have poison immunity there
Anglo Saxon Chronicle
79-80 Large War, King Alfred built 7 long ships better than
ash ships, 28 and half year rule except for when Danish ruled
81 Edward was heir, Aethelwald was father’s brother’s son,
82 906 year of peace with East Anglians and Northumbrians as
King Edward advised
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