Theme: love and fidelity in the folk ballad of england and scotland

GLOSSARY
Alliterate -use alliteration as a form of poetry .One or more accented syllables in the first half of a line almost always alliterate with one or more accented syllables in the second half.
Anglo-Saxon- English prior to about 1100 .The Anglo-Saxon Period
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle-Much of our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon history, as well as a good deal of information about Old English, comes from the various versions of this work, which was probably started by *King Alfred or at his court in the 890s
Beowulf - an Old English heroic poem of 3182 lines, surviving in a manuscript in the British Museum. It is set in Scandinavia and tells the story of Beowulf’s defeat of the monster Grendel and his mother, and his own later death following a fight with a dragon. Its style is noted for the poet’s command of metrical form and rich store of poetic compounds
Celtic -relating to or characteristic of the Celts
Chronicle -a record or narrative description of past events
Christianity - a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savio
Christ II - an incomplete poem of 427 lines by the Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, who left his signature on four poems based on Latin originals. It is preserved in the Exeter Book in Exeter Cathedral, flanked by Advent hymns referred to as Christ I and a Judgement Day poem referred to as Christ III.
Christ and Satan -a text of 729 lines of verse describing a series of events including the Resurrection of Christ, the Ascension into heaven, and *Judgement Day.
Christianity.-The Anglo-Saxons were pagans when they first arrived in England. The historian Bede tells us that St Augustine was sent from Rome to convert them to Christianity, arriving in 597 and becoming first Archbishop of Canterbury. Thereafter, Christianity spread throughout the country, sometimes assimilating pagan customs, as in the conflation of the festival of the heathen goddess Eostre with Easter and of Christmas with the yule-tide winter festivities.
Epic-a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Epic poetry -poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero
Folklore -the unwritten stories and proverbs and songs of a culture
Germanic- a general term used to describe the group of related languages which includes Old English, Old Norse and old forms of German. They can be traced back to a common ancestor language known as Primitive Germanic or Proto-Germanic, spoken in Southern Scandinavia and Northern Germany up until about the fourth century AD, when the peoples and languages began to diverge. The term is also applied to speakers of these languages. Modern descendants include English, Dutch, German and the Scandinavian languages.
Legend -a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events.