VIKINGS

Aelfrich’s 10th Century “Homily on St. Gregory the Great”

MAP OF NORSE
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CAEDMON
 EZRA POUND

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was
an expatriate American poet and critic, and a major figure in the early modernist
poetry movement. His contribution to poetry began with his development of Imagism, a
movement derived from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision and
economy of language. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) and
the unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos (1917–1969).

Bede (/biːd/ BEED; Old English: Bǣda, Bēda; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint
Bede, Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Latin: Bēda Venerābilis), was an
English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St. Peter and its companion monastery of St.
Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles (contemporarily Monkwearmouth–Jarrow
Abbey in Tyne and Wear, England). Born on lands likely belonging to the Monkwearmouth
monastery in present day Sunderland, Bede was sent there at the age of seven and later joined
Abbot Ceolfrith at the Jarrow monastery, both of whom survived a plague that struck in 686, an
outbreak that killed a majority of the population there.