Anglo Saxon history

[Masaniello]

Right now, my obsession is Anglo Saxon history. History of any kind is my joy but I’ve settled on this period in English history (fifth to eleventh centuries CE) for my reading. Here’s the book I’ve just started.

 

[thejuice]

Are you English yourself?

 

[thejuice]

Ah Australian you wanna know more about your ancestors

 

[Masaniello]

I’m Australian but my ancestors arrived here in the 19th century.

 

[Masaniello]

Incidentally, the book is easy to read. I hate it when highly qualified people clearly write to be published rather than to be read.

 

[thejuice]

Where did they port?

 

[Masaniello]

Where did they port?

I assume Sydney.

 

[Wolfnox]

Would history Britainana be of interest?

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

This is really interesting to me too. The entire history of Great Britain. The Norman Invasion is a big aspie stim for me. I love learning about it.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

MY DNA test shows both my wife and I heritage.

 

[FoxLovinPat]

This thread reminds me of how I had an English teacher in high school who kinda doubled as an English history teacher too as a good amount of her assignments had something to do with early English/British history, specifically Anglo Saxon but iirc there was some medieval/Renaissance era stuff too.

I dunno how much of it was actually part of the curriculum and how much of it was just her having an interest in that stuff herself and sharing that with her class by means if assigning us to do research projects on such things, or reading media related to it. Like we had to read Beowulf, but that could've been an actual curriculum thing for that year and it just so happened to coincidence with the teacher's interest in Anglo Saxon stuff.

She's wasn't British btw, she was American but perhaps she has that in her heritage and was just very proud/interested in her heritage.
And no I don't recall her name or which year of highschool this was as my memories of high school blend together and are generally hazy.

 

[Tom]

I have had lifelong interest in history, but as is often the case very rarely in total alignment with others. I have an inerest in the Angles and Saxons earlier in their history, say 200 BC to 500 AD. mainly their interactions/wars with Rome during that period. But I do have a overall interest in English history, particularly medieval.

Have you seen the recent film 'The Dig' ? Its a good A-Grade British film production of the Sutton Ho find.

 

[Masaniello]

I have had lifelong interest in history, but as is often the case very rarely in total alignment with others. I have an inerest in the Angles and Saxons earlier in their history, say 200 BC to 500 AD. mainly their interactions/wars with Rome during that period. But I do have a overall interest in English history, particularly medieval.

Have you seen the recent film 'The Dig' ? Its a good A-Grade British film production of the Sutton Ho find.

No, but I would like to visit the site when I’m over there hopefully next year.

 

[Masaniello]

This is really interesting to me too. The entire history of Great Britain. The Norman Invasion is a big aspie stim for me. I love learning about it.

Still a while to go in this book until then but yes, that’s an interesting time in history.

 

[Mary Terry]

This thread reminds me of how I had an English teacher in high school who kinda doubled as an English history teacher too as a good amount of her assignments had something to do with early English/British history, specifically Anglo Saxon but iirc there was some medieval/Renaissance era stuff too.

I dunno how much of it was actually part of the curriculum and how much of it was just her having an interest in that stuff herself and sharing that with her class by means if assigning us to do research projects on such things, or reading media related to it. Like we had to read Beowulf, but that could've been an actual curriculum thing for that year and it just so happened to coincidence with the teacher's interest in Anglo Saxon stuff.

She's wasn't British btw, she was American but perhaps she has that in her heritage and was just very proud/interested in her heritage.
And no I don't recall her name or which year of highschool this was as my memories of high school blend together and are generally hazy.

We had to read Beowolf in high school as part of the regular curriculum. And a lot of Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, etc.

 

[FoxLovinPat]

We had to read Beowolf in high school as part of the regular curriculum. And a lot of Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, etc.

Yeah that is true, was probably just a coincidence then that she was teaching the year that we had to read Beowulf.. or perhaps not, she could've specifically wanted to be an English teacher for that grade year because she knew would get to teach Beowolf.

In our class we read it in two different parts, part one was translated and modified by some old monk guy I don't recall the name of who ofc changed th story a bit to add Christian elements to it such as saying that Grendel was a child of Cain (as in Cain from the story of Cain and Able, the brother murderer, son of Adam and Eve.)
And then the second part with the dragon was a proper translation with no added/modified elements to it.