Question 11
Read the passage below and answer questions 7-11 that follow.
The epic poem Beowulf, written in old English, is the earliest Germanic epic and one of four surviving Anglo-Saxon manuscript. Although Beowulf was written by an anonymous Englishman in Old English, the tale takes place in that part of Scandinavia from which Germanic tribes emigrated to England. Beowulf, comes from Gaetland, the soth eastern part of what is now Sweden. Hrothgar, king of the Danes, lives near what is now Leire, on Zealand, Denmark's largest island. The Beowulf and several minor tales that reflect a rich Germanic oral tradition of myths, legends, and folklore. The Beowulf warriors have a foot in both the Bronze and Iron Ages. Their mead-halls reflect the wealthy living of the Bronze Age Northmen, and their wooden shields, wooden shafted spears, and bronze Age warriors. However, they carry iron-tipped spears, and their best sword have iron and iron edged blades. Beowulf also orders an iron shield for his fight with a dragon. Iron replaced bronze because it produced a blade with a cutting edge that was stronger and sharper. The Northmen learned how to forge iron in about 500 B.C. Although they had been superior to the European celts in bronze work, it was the celts who taught them how to make and design iron work. Iron was accessible everywhere in Scandinavia, usually in the form 'bog-iron' found in the layers of peat in peat begs. The Beowulf epic also reveals interesting aspects of the lives of the Anglo-Saxons who lived in England at the time of the anonymous Beowulf poet. The Germanic tribes included Agles, the Saxons, and the Jutes invaded England from about A.D 450 TO 600. By the time of Beowulf poet Anglo-Saxon society in England was neither primitive nor uncultured.
The epic poem Beowulf, written in old English, is the earliest Germanic epic and one of four surviving Anglo-Saxon manuscript. Although Beowulf was written by an anonymous Englishman in Old English, the tale takes place in that part of Scandinavia from which Germanic tribes emigrated to England. Beowulf, comes from Gaetland, the soth eastern part of what is now Sweden. Hrothgar, king of the Danes, lives near what is now Leire, on Zealand, Denmark's largest island. The Beowulf and several minor tales that reflect a rich Germanic oral tradition of myths, legends, and folklore. The Beowulf warriors have a foot in both the Bronze and Iron Ages. Their mead-halls reflect the wealthy living of the Bronze Age Northmen, and their wooden shields, wooden shafted spears, and bronze Age warriors. However, they carry iron-tipped spears, and their best sword have iron and iron edged blades. Beowulf also orders an iron shield for his fight with a dragon. Iron replaced bronze because it produced a blade with a cutting edge that was stronger and sharper. The Northmen learned how to forge iron in about 500 B.C. Although they had been superior to the European celts in bronze work, it was the celts who taught them how to make and design iron work. Iron was accessible everywhere in Scandinavia, usually in the form 'bog-iron' found in the layers of peat in peat begs. The Beowulf epic also reveals interesting aspects of the lives of the Anglo-Saxons who lived in England at the time of the anonymous Beowulf poet. The Germanic tribes included Agles, the Saxons, and the Jutes invaded England from about A.D 450 TO 600. By the time of Beowulf poet Anglo-Saxon society in England was neither primitive nor uncultured.
Why did iron replace bronze?
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