The poem is (brace yourself) a relic of the Dark Ages--as in chain mail, not e-mail.
Sutton Hoo was a milestone for historians of the Dark Ages because it reversed the perception that Anglo Saxons were relatively unsophisticated.
However, this does show the danger of giving into what might be called ransom demands, as English kings of the Dark Ages found out.
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This was an office established by the Bush Administration and then the Obama Administration has doubled down on it to bring healthIT in the U.S. out of the dark ages.
If you go deeper back in time, you meet the city's patron and founder, the warrior monk Colmcille or Saint Columba, who founded the missionary movement that helped bring Europe out of the Dark Ages.
"The day is not so far off when the mysteries of the dark ages of the Universe and the physical properties of the first galaxies will be revealed, " Masanori Iye, the leader of the Thirty Meter Telescope project at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, said in a statement.
The premodern tale tellers might also be thought of as descendants of the scops of the Anglo-Saxon Dark Ages or of the griots of West Africa, men whose job it was to carry stories.
This sectarian conflict stifled the brilliance of the Muslim renaissance that took place during the Dark Ages of Europe, when the great universities, scientists, doctors, and artists were all Muslim.
There are always bad apples, but many of the gamers upset by the direction of the industry has taken are simply passionate about games, much like music fans during the dark ages of the music industry.
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Is it in danger of slipping back into the dark ages?
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In both registers, the first half of the book, from pre-history through the Dark Ages to the Hundred Years' War, is outstanding.
Yet that was in the dark ages of technology, and Internet purchases are now huge.
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Despite dramatic advances in information technology, many electric utilities still operate in the dark ages of data management.
Then came the Dark Ages of American Energy, thirty years of business as usual and fossils (fuels, mostly).
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Despite the transition to deregulation in many states, several investor-owned utilities still seem to be operating in the Dark Ages of corporate governance.
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But career opportunities for women, especially those with a college degree, are incalcuably better than they were in the dark ages of just a few decades ago.
The railways were auctioned off into private hands in the hope that private cash and new management would transform it from the dark ages of British Rail.
With current disclosure requirements, we might already have known about this but, back in the dark ages of 2002, no one had any idea that this was going on.
These maps, which primarily adorned the world's churches and other places of power and learning, succeeded in returning mapping to the dark ages, getting much wrong and gleefully so.
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The so-called Dark Ages, which date roughly from the collapse of the Roman Empire in 422 A.D. to early medieval times, saw a massive contraction of interregional trade and investment.
Now, they are being asked to approve policies that no one has used since the dark ages, while in the middle of a crisis no living person understands.
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It is also one of the key ancient manuscripts that enabled Western civilization to awake from the dark ages and enter the modern world during the Renaissance.
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So too the intellectual triumphs of recent years don't signify that man has become any more intelligent than he was in the preceding dark ages.
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