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Exercises:

1.AfterthefalloftheRomanEmpireandthewithdrawalofRomantroops

from

Albion,theaboriginal_Cletic____populationofthelargerpartoftheisland

was

soonconqueredandalmosttotallyexterminatedbytheTeutonictribesof

___Angles_,__Saxons__,and__Jutes___whocamefromthecontinentand

settled

intheisland,namingitscentralpart__Anglio___,orEngland.

2.Fornearly__400__yearspriortothecomingoftheEnglish,Britishhad

beena

Romanprovince.In__410_,theRomewithdrewtheirlegionsfromBritainto

protect

herselfagainstswarmsofTeutonicinvaders.

3.Theliteratureofearlyperiodfallsnaturallyintotwodivisions,

__pagan_and

__Christian__.

4.__ThesongofBeowulf__canbejustlytermedEnglandsnationalepicandits

hero

_Beowulf___—oneofthenationalheroesoftheEnglishpeople.

5.TheSongofBeowulfreflectseventswhichtookplaceonthe_European

Continent___approximatelyatthebeginningofthe_6th___century,when

theforefathersoftheJuteslivedinthesouthernpartofthe__Scandinavian

peninsula__andmaintainedcloserelationswithkindredtribes,e.g.withthe

__Danes__wholivedontheothersideofthestraits.

6.AmongtheearlyAnglo-Saxonpoetswemaymention_Caedmon___who

lived

inthehalfofthe___7th_centuryandwhowroteapoetic

ParaphraseoftheBible.

7.__Caedmon__isthefirstknowreligiouspoetofEngland.Heisknownas

the

fatherofEnglishsong.

8.ThedidacticpoemTheChristwasproducedby__Cynewulf__.

9.Themostimportantworkof__a__istheAnglo-SaxonChronicles,which

is

regardedasthebestmonumentoftheoldEnglishprose.

a.AlfredtheGreatb.Caedmon

c.Cynewulf