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Anglo-Saxon Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Man price to avenge death

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Wergild

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Fitts

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Sections

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Poetic song or story

A

Lay

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Years of Anglo-Saxon era

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449-1066 AD

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Who conquered England in 1066?

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William the conquered from France

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A two word hyphenation used as a metaphor

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Kenning

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Poet, singer, story teller

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Scop

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Repositories of culture and centers of leaning

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Monasteries

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What game does the Green Knight propose? (Gawain)

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A knight can give him a blow of the axe if he can return the blow in 1 year and 1 day

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Where does Gawain have to travel to? What holiday is close?

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Green Chapel; Christmas

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What is Gawain’s Christmas prayer?

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Have a place to attend mass on Christmas Eve

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How are Gawain’s prayers answered?

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A White Castle appears where he can stay

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How does Gawain betray his host?

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He keeps the queen’s girdle, which she promised would make him immortal

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13
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What was the primary concern in midieval literature?

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Romance

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Who established the feudal system?

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William the conquerer

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What trait does Gawain’s journey reenforce?

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Humility

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Type of poem Beowulf is

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Epic

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Wyrd

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Fate

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4 highlights of chivalry

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  • prowess at arms
  • intelligent
  • eloquent
  • skillful at charming a lady
19
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According to Gawain, why is the chivalric system flawed?

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It is a part of human nature to be self serving when faced with fear

20
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Heroic paradox

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Ultimate glory is to die in battle, but he can’t enjoy his glory because he is dead

21
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What is Beowulf’s primary attribute as a hero?

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Preternatural strength

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3 battles of Beowulf

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  • Grendel
  • Grendel’s mother
  • the dragon
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How is Grendel’s mother killed?

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Beowulf beheads her with a sword from the wall of her underwater lair

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How is Grendel killed?

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Beowulf tears his arm off

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How does Beowulf kill the dragon?

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He musters all his strength to stab his dagger into the dragon’s belly

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What is Beowulf’s motivation for killing Grendel?

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Glory

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What is Beowulf’s motivation for killing the dragon?

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Treasure and protection of his kingdom

28
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Who is Grendel a descendant from?

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Cain

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What was a Germanic lord’s duty?

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Keep people safe and well cared for by employing warriors, paid with treasure

30
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Courtly love

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Nonsexual adoration by a man of a woman of higher status

31
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Beowulf opens and closes with what kind of scene?

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A funeral

32
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Hall threatened by Grendel

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Heorot

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Every Ango-Saxon hero has a doubter. Beowulf’s is

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Unferth

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Why does Grendel’s mother come to Heorot?

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To avenge her son, wergild

35
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How long does Beowulf rule?

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50 years

36
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How does Beowulf ultimately die?

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Dragon bite

37
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What religion was practiced when Beowulf was written?

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Paganism

38
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2 examples of paganism in Beowulf

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  • Funeral pyres

- the dragon

39
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What religion was practiced when Gawain was published?

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Christianity

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