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Anglo-Saxon Study Guide Flashcards

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What is the price of a man. If you killed a man, you were required to pay a monetary amount to that man’s relative

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Wergild

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2
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Letters based on the Greek alphabet

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Rune

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3
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Area where a Saxon longboat of artifacts were taken with rich and gold

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Sutton Hoo

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4
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Singing poets companion

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Gleeman

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5
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God of war and sky

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Tiu

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6
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Singing poets

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Scop

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Chief of the gods

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Woden

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Roman emperor that built a wall to protect the northern border

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Hadrian

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Goddess of the home and Woden‘s wife

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Fria

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Six characteristics of Anglo-Saxon poetry

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Alliteration, Caesura, Kennings, 4 stress lines, oral, and and - stopped lines

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11
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Two categories of old English poetry and give and example of each one what

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Secular/Heroic -Beowulf (achievements of warrior)

Religious/elegiac - Seafarer (laments mourning deaths and loss of the past)

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Six characteristics of an epic

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  1. Long narrative poem
  2. Celebrates the deeds of a hero
  3. Hero is larger than life and concerns eternal human problems
  4. Written in a serious manner
  5. Written in elevated language
  6. Hero represents widespread national, cultural, or religious values
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Date of Anglo-Saxon era

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(499-1066) (750-1066)

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14
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Role of religion in Anglo-Saxon life

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Pagans ruled their early life

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15
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Role of warfare

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Series of invasions invaded Britain and dominated their life

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16
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Role of poetry

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Used for oral transmissions and performances

17
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Civilization that introduced roads in Christianity to Anglo Saxon England

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The Romans

18
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The father of English history

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Bede

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Anglo Saxton mead hall’s represented

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Banquet halls working, wives, and servants gather

20
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Who invaded and conquer Britain at the battle of Hastings in 1066

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The Normans

21
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Characteristics of the heroic Ideal

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Skillful, brave, and loyal

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Why was fame so important to Anglo-Saxons

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Since Anglo-Saxon people were pagan, the closest hope to an afterlife was fame

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Heroic qualities of Beowulf

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Courage, generosity, unquestioning loyalty and devotion

24
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Why couldn’t Grendel touch Hrothgars throne

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It’s protected by God

25
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What saves Beowulfs life in the battle with Grendel’s mother

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Mail coat

26
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How did Grendel’s mother punish Hrothgar for the death of her son

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She killed his best friend

27
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Contrast Beowulf‘s battle in the lake with his battle at Herot

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He uses weapons in the lake and his enemies don’t show fear

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How did Grendel’s mother die

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Beowulf slices her neck with a sword

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What does the dragon hoard and what does symbolize

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 treasure and symbolizes wealth and power

30
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Beowulf‘s flaw

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Greed for fame 

31
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What Wiglafs fighting the dragon tells you about the importance of honor in the Anglo Saxon period.

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A warrior sacrifices his own life to save the kings life. Not everyone who you think shows loyalty to you, will sacrifice their own lives to save yours. They show that they are cowards in dishonor to the family

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Epic heroes embody and fight for the values of the time. Grendel represents something or someone who is trying to destroy what the Anglo Saxons value. Think about what our culture values during today’s time. Who or what threatens to destroy our values? Compare Grendel symbolic threat of destruction to that of our own.

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Our culture values freedom of speech. Defamation is in is an example of what threatens to destroy our values. A person may be sued for committing a false statement that harms the reputation of another person. Grendel‘s symbolic threat of destruction and defamation both tries to harm what each other value. Defamation limits an individuals freedom of speech while Grendel’s threat keeps the epic heroes from fighting for the values of time. The values of each of the time periods Has a situation that acts as an obstacle from being able to express their values completely. They both can fight against the values. For example, heroes can counter act Grendel to get their values back while people can file a lawsuit to defend against an opinion that was false.

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