Anglo-Saxon Test Flashcards

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Anglo-Saxons

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Population explosion, primogeniture, fate, Christianity, Old English, poetry

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Celts

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Successful, Baltic, beauty

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Danes

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Raiders, settlers, “Darelaw”, Alfred the Great

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Romans

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Conquest of Picts by Caesar, Technology, Tactics, “Chemical warfare”, retirement, castra

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5
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Kenning

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Two-word renaming for something

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Caesura

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Pause for breath

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Elegy

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For mourning and loss

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Scop

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Traveling poem teller

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Tueatha de Danaan

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“Children of the Earth”-small and magical

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