Anglo-Saxon Test Flashcards
1
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Anglo-Saxons
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Population explosion, primogeniture, fate, Christianity, Old English, poetry
2
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Celts
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Successful, Baltic, beauty
3
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Danes
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Raiders, settlers, “Darelaw”, Alfred the Great
4
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Romans
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Conquest of Picts by Caesar, Technology, Tactics, “Chemical warfare”, retirement, castra
5
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Kenning
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Two-word renaming for something
6
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Caesura
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Pause for breath
7
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Elegy
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For mourning and loss
8
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Scop
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Traveling poem teller
9
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Tueatha de Danaan
A
“Children of the Earth”-small and magical