Unit 1 Test Review Flashcards
witan/thanes
men who held land granted by the king and who were 100% loyal to him
when does england become apart of Roman territory?
52 BCE
why is hadrian’s wall built?
to keep the scots isolated in the north
when did Anglo-saxons convert to christianity?
597 CE
where did saxons come from?
Holland and Belgium
where did saxons settle?
southern england
where did the angles come from?
north germany and denmark
where did the angles settle?
northumbria
jutes were…
less organized than the saxons and are believed to have been a mixture of germanic people
where did the jutes settle?
in the area of kent
thanes
early barons who were granted status based on military service
churles/serfs
bonded servants and worked the land for for military protection
where was social life?
mead hall and scops and bards entertained the crowd with songs and stories
wergild
man price: meaning that every person had a value and if you killed a man their family could kill you or the family’s
bretwalda
high king
what was anglo-saxon religion?
pagon
druids
priests
wyrd
fate
church brought….
education and written literature to society
when do anglo-saxons end?
mid 1,000’s
who overpowered the anglo-saxons ?
romans and their reign ends
who raided in the late 8th century?
vikings
in 871…
alfred the great becomes king of wessex
what is sutton hoo?
anglo-saxon burial ground for kings
anglo-saxon literature was…
an oral based literature
oral tradition focused on…
brave and heroic deeds
what is the only surviving full length epic?
Beowulf
metonymy
name of one thing is substituted for the name of something else
synedoche
substitute a part for a whole
caesura
when the verse line is divided into two halves separated by a rhythmical pause
anglo-saxons took over the brytons then came…
the angles, saxons, and jukes
what were the two different tribes?
brytons and gales
what did druids do?
preserve people’s myths and legends by reciting long poems
when did the anglo-saxon era begin?
900 BCE
monsteries
centers of religious life
