Unit 1: Parts 1 & 2 Vocabulary

Orchards blossom, the towns bloom,
Fields grow lovely as the world springs fresh,
And all these admonish that willing mind
Leaping to journeys, always set
In thoughts traveling on a quickening tide.

So summer’s sentinel, the cuckoo, sings
In his murmuring voice, and our hearts mourn
As he urges.

Thus the joys of God
Are fervent with life, where life itself
Fades quickly into the earth.

The praise the living pour on the dead
Flowers from reputation: plant
An earthly life of profit reaped
Even from hatred and rancor

Oft to the wanderer, weary of exile,
Cometh God’s pity, compassionate love

The forms of his kinsmen take shape in the silence:
In rapture he greets them; in gladness he scans
Old comrades remembered.

No one
Waited for reparation from his plundering claws

Let them
Beware, those who are thrust into danger,
Clutched at by trouble, yet can carry no solace
In their hearts, cannot hope to be better!

That this one favor you should not refuse me—
That I, alone and with the help of my men,
May purge all evil from this hall.

That trip to Herot
Was a miserable journey for the writhing monster!

Then he saw, hanging on the wall, a heavy
Sword, hammered by giants, strong
And blessed with their magic, the best of all weapons
But so massive that no ordinary man could lift
Its carved and decorated length.

He was hunting another
Dead monster, and took his weapon with him
For final revenge against Grendel’s vicious
Attacks, his nighttime raids, over
And over, coming to Herot when Hrothgar’s
Men slept, killing them in their beds,
Eating some on the spot, fifteen
Or more, and running to his loathsome moor
With another such sickening meal waiting
In his pouch.

Most Old English poetry is preserved in four manuscripts of the late 10th and early 11th centuries.

In addition to the poems in these books are historical poems in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; poetic renderings of Psalms 51-150; the 31 Metres included in King Alfred the Great's translation of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae (Consolation of Philosophy); magical, didactic, elegiac, and heroic poems; and others, miscellaneously interspersed with prose, jotted in margins, and even worked in stone or metal.

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Within a century of Augustine's landing, England was in the forefront of scholarship.

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When you evaluate a text, you state your own judgment about it.