old english Flashcards
1
Q
3 tribes
A
angles, saxons, jutes
2
Q
court poets & storytellers
A
scops
3
Q
religion before christianity
A
paganism
4
Q
illiterate poet that spoke of god
A
caedmon
5
Q
other popular old english poet
A
cynewulf
6
Q
beowulf
A
oldest surviving german epic
7
Q
who wrote beowulf
A
a monk
8
Q
what writing styles / techniques did beowulf consist of
A
alliteration, kenning, archaic words
9
Q
who wrote king arthur and his knights of the round table
A
sir thomas malory
10
Q
sermons of wulfstan
A
sermo lupi ad anglos
