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Anglo Saxon Period Analysis

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Do you wonder what life is back in the past? Is it as hard as today or harder, or maybe easier? To see a view of the past, witness the period of Anglo Saxon and how life is back then. Is the past better, or our generation already learned from them? Anglo Saxon Period covers the history of medieval Britain that starts from the end of Roman rule. It is a period widely known in European history as the Migration Period, also the Völkerwanderung (migration of people in German). Germanic tribes migrate to British lands and adopt the language and culture of the native people of the Britain. Anglo Saxon Period has three particularly areas of discussion that can be relatable to the present time – role of women, social hierarchy, and the government.
Although, the women of this era is devalued to the point that the only work they can do is for their husband and children, basically domestic chores, Anglo-Saxon women assumed specific roles in their society which are important. One of these roles was that of a peace weaver. A peace weaver was a woman who was married off to make peace between warring tribes. An example of a woman as a peace weaver is seen in “The Wife’s Lament” where the narrator, Norton writes, “I must suffer the feud of my much beloved”. Here it can be inferred that the narrator was married into a warring tribe to settle a feud, and now she suffers the pain of her husband who has left her. Although the role of a peace weaver is supposed to bring peace to warring tribes,

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