Legends and myths of E ngland

Nesterov Artem and klimov Vlad
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2020
Муниципальное Автономное Общеобразовательное Учреждение

Гагинская Средняя Школа

in England?
What myths exist in england

how people relate to them

Beowulf
The myth of Beowulf is a story about kings, vigilantes,

feasts, duels, and battles. This major Anglo-Saxon epic has a simple plot. Beowulf was a young warrior of the tribe sought out. Once he learned that the king Hidetaka attacked by the monster Grendel. For twelve years it destroyed the king's men-at-arms. Beowulf decided to protect people from Grendel, went to fight with him. First he killed the monster, and then his terrible mother. Beowulf returned to his homeland, where he was showered with awards and thanks. Then he performed many more feats, after which the gautas elected him their king. Once Beowulf had to engage in battle with the dragon. The hero defeated the monster, but he died. The people burned his body on a funeral pyre. A mound was built on this site, where the treasure won by Beowulf was stored.

are often found in the works of English folklore. They

mostly live in abandoned castles and are described as short (up to 90 centimeters), evil creatures with red eyes and caps. They carry a scythe or an axe and constantly kill stray travelers. They kill constantly, because according to legend, they paint their caps with the blood of the victims, and if the cap dries up, the creature dies. They are almost impossible to catch and quite difficult to escape from, as they wear iron-shod boots that give them just superhuman speed.

of the 12th century in the village of Woolpit in

Suffolk. They say that during the field work, the peasants found two children-a boy and a girl. And all would have been well, but they spoke a strange language, and their skin was green. They ate only green beans from the local food and did not communicate well with the villagers. They were taken to the house of a local knight, and he sheltered the orphans. Soon the children lost their green color, but after a long illness, the boy died. The girl survived, learned to eat normal food and, more or less learning the language, told them that she and her brother came to them deep from the underworld – "the Land of St. Martin", where all people have green skin and it is always dark. Most likely, this story is based on a typical folk tale about a meeting with the inhabitants of the other world. Scientists also claim that the children may have been foreign prisoners who escaped from the copper mines-hence the characteristic greenish skin color. It seems to me that this legend is drawn to something in the style of "Crimson rivers".

found in European folklore. Wild Hunt, according to these ideas,

is a group of ghosts or supernatural creatures that have gone out on a hunting rut. Hunters, according to different versions, can be either elves, or fairies, or dead, and the leader of the hunt is often a named figure associated with Odin, or one or another legendary or historical figure, such as Theodoric the Great, the Danish king Waldemar Atterdag, the Welsh psycho pump Gwynn Ap Noodd, biblical figures such as Herod, Cain, Gabriel or even the Devil.

the Scottish Society of Psychologists even conducted research in the

castle. The commission came to such conclusions: most often the castle is visited by the murderer king Henry VIII. He appears in the ensembles of the palace and creaks with his wooden foot. Crazy King George III wanders in the same place. This noisy ghost loves to watch over the members of the royal family and scares them with its appearance. They see there and a huge knight in armor, with a sword, but without a head. This knight so frightened one of the guards that he escaped from his post. The servants in the royal palace do not last long

Blickling Hall is famous for its old library and model

garden, which was cared for by many generations of the estate owners. It is currently managed by the National Trust. The castle ranks first in the "ghostly" rating. Here comes the ghost of Queen Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, who was beheaded on May 19, 1536 on suspicion of treason. The castle is inhabited by two more “tenants”: the spirit of the good-natured comrade-in-arms of Henry IV - the knight John Fastolph, whom the great Shakespeare wrote at once in several of his plays (“Windsor Gummies”, “Henry IV”, “Henry V”) as Falstaff, and the ghost of the arrogant Sir Henry Hobart, killed in a duel in 1698. Some eyewitnesses claim that at midnight before the full moon, all three ghosts gather in a large hall in front of the old fireplace and drink traditional English tea with rolls and butter.

believe in these legends, myths and live on their own

but there are people who want to know everything about their country and according to these legends they produce films print books and just remind their country of it

are terrible funny interesting or educational. We learned all this

in the course of our work.