Anglo Saxon Society Flashcards
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Characteristics of an Anglo Saxons Hero
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Incredible strength Courage and bravery Love of beauty Boasting-belief in their own abilities- Generosity Belief in Wyrd -fate-
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What Anglo Saxons believed in?
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Personal valor Allegiance to a lord or a king Open handed hospitality Sense of shortness of life Savage and sentimental Stern and barbarous life Religious with a touch of fatalism
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Personal valor
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Understood the shortness of life. Therefore they competed for fame.
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Comitatus
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Commitment to a king/lord
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Open handed hospitality
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If a warrior was brave, he will be awarded with treasure.
One should help another if someone needed help.
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Savage and sentimental
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They were warriors but they morn the loss of their fellow soldiers greatly until the wiergild was paid
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Wiergild
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Retribution for a death at war
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Stern and barbarous life
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They were under the realities of life. Nature was a hard experience and they were constantly being invade
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Boasting
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Belief in their own abilities
