Fredymology (ep. 1) - Monsters and Magic; Old English Literature and Anglo-Saxon Heroes

Fredymology Episode 1 [-PILOT-], the series exploring the annals of English Literature chronologically through its mightiest writers, poets, playwrights and more. This episode focuses on the Anglo-Saxon Era, spanning from 400s to 1066AD; it is an epoch veiled in an eldritch, mythological air, offset by the emergent light of ecclesiasticism. Please sit back and enjoy this lengthy, uncut pilot-episode. (Bibliography Below) Timestamps: 00:00 Beginning 01:33 Introduction 03:52 Themes & Reading List 10:45 Anglo-Saxons 12:26 Gildas 17:07 Historical Intermission 26:30 Bede 37:49 Old English Poetry 43:30 The Wanderer 50:00 The Ruin 54:32 Dream of the Rood 01:01:19 Beowulf (pt. 1) 01:10:20 Beowulf Reading 01:15:26 Beowulf (pt. 2) 01:17:15 Anglo-Saxon Chronicles 01:24:50 Modern Adaptations 01:31:06 Epilogue De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae - Gildas Historia Ecclestiatica gentis Anglorum - Bede Old and Middle English: An Anthology - Elaine Treharne The Anglo-Saxons - Marc Morris A Short History of English Literature - Ifor Evans The Pagan Religions of the Anciewnt British Isles - Ronald Hutton "The Wanderer" - Anonymous "The Ruin" - Anonymous "Dream of the Rood" Beowulf - Anonymous The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles - Anonymous Grendel - John Gardner Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Sceadugenga - Frederick Atkinson