Old English Literature
Anglo-Saxon Literature or Old English Literature encompasses literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England from the 5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066.
Old English heroic poetry was handed down orally from generation to generation.As Christianity began to appear, re-tellers often recast the tales of Christianity into the older heroic stories.Old English Poetry falls broadly into two styles of fields of reference,the heroic Germanic and the Christia. Most of English poetry are anonymou, and only four names are known with any certainty: Caedmon,Bede,Alfred the Great,and Cynewulf.
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