The first page of BeowulfOld Englis

The first page of BeowulfOld English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England after the withdrawal of the Romans and "ending soon after the Norman Conquest" in 1066; that is, c. 1100–50.[1] These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles, riddles, and others.[2] In all there are about 400 surviving manuscripts from the period.[3]