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Period: 500 to 700
Old English Period
The common Germanic Metre was introduced by invaders like the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes around the 5th and 6th century. The Christian chlericals used variations of the “Hymn of Creation” varying the topics based on these verses, the style developed from the germanic metre unlike the one used in the rest of Europe. -
600
First influences and poetry
The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who invaded Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries and brough the germanic metre, before that there was some oral tradition that didn't leave mayor contributions or samples. The production of literary material began more exactly after the king's Aethelberht I of Kent conversion to Christianity. -
Period: 600 to 1000
Alliterative verse
Usually verses had a four line structure with an alliteration on the second and third line, sometimes using six lines maintaining the link in the half, these production technique vary little through the next 400 years of literature production. -
Period: 700 to 800
Prose
The arrival of the law code of King Aethelberht I of Kent within a few years of the appearance of San Augustin of Canterbury and other manuscripts on law and medicine. -
Period: 1100 to 1200
Major manuscripts
English literature most important texts were made around this timespan The Beowulf manuscript contains Beowulf, Judith, and three prose tracts; the Exeter Book which is a mixture of lyrics, riddles, didactic poems, etc. the Junius Manuscript is as well known as the Caedmon Manuscript, also there is the Vercelli Book, which is a collection of the Saint´s lives and the Anglo Saxon Chronicle , as well as the Consolation of Philosophy, a translation of the Boethius manuscript.