Anglo Saxons Test
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- The Celts were separated into two groups called:
- Gaels and Britons
- Gaels settled in _____.
- Ireland.
- Druids were PRIESTS who...
- settled disputes among chieftains, presided over religious rituals (sacrifices and prayers), and preserved the people's myths about the past by reciting long, heroic poems.
- Where were the Angles from?
- Southern Denmark
- Where were the Saxons from?
- northern Denmark and Germany
- When did the Anglo Saxons stage attacks on britain?
- 5th Century
- Where did the name "England" come from?
- "Angles' land"
- What is a WITAN?
- council of elders
- A hereditary class of ruling warlords who owed their positioin to the king
- Earls
- Who were allowed to own land and engage in commerce?
- Freeman
- bounded servants who worked the land in return for military protection
- churls or serfs
- thralls were . . .
- slaves that were usually military prisoners or people being punished
- system of reciprocity establishing loyalty between a lord and his thane
- comitatus
- True or False: The Anglo-Saxons believed in only one god.
- They were pagan.
- Everyone was in the hands of fate or ____.
- Wyrd
- What did the early Anglo-Saxons believe in?
- ancient Germanic gods
- English history was recorded in ____ kept by monks
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
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Anglo-Saxon literature flourished in :
the written or oral tradition? - oral
- performers were professional minstrels known as
- scops
- mid-line pause
- caesura
- two categories of anglo-saxon verse
- heroic and elegiac
- heroic poetry recounted ____
- the deeds of warriors
- elegiac poetry lamented ___
- the deaths of loved ones and the loss of the past.
- first work to be composed in English
- Beowolf
- who was the author of beowolf?
- it was unknown.
- When did the Romans introduce Christianity to Britain?
- Fourth century
- Most of England was Christian by ____
- the end of the 7th century
- what brought education and written literature?
- Christians brought it.
- ____ copied and illuminated manuscripts
- monks
- The language of church scholarship. The language that manuscrips were written in.
- Latin
- who was the "father of English history?
- the Venerable Bede, a northumbrian/benediction monk
- what was the Venerable Mede's most famous work?
- A History of the English Church and People
- Monumental work that offers the clearest account of the Anglo-Saxon times
- A History of the English Church and People by the Venerable Bede was...
- first English poet; said to have divine inspiration for his poetry from dreams
- Caedmon (7th century)
- has four surviving poems
- Cynewolf
- (by the middle of the 9th century) the territory, most of N, E, and Central England that had fallen to the Vikings was called
- Danelaw
- ascended the throne of Wessex in 871.
- Alfred the Great; or "The Great"
- Who translated Bede's History of the English Church and People from Latin to Anglo-Saxon
- Alfred the Great.
- Fostered the growth of the English language and its literature
- Alfred
- The last Anglo-Saxon king who was overthrowed
- Harold II
- what is an example of "Kenning"
- a compound metaphorical name for something such as "whale's path" for he sea.
- name one Danish contribution
- beer-brewing, moving goods to markets, trading centers, able to communicate easily with the english.
- canute...
- overthrew the Wessex dynasty, establishing ÃŽanish rule until 1042
- after Edward died
- NORMAN conquest
- Timline: Celts
- 1
- Timeline: Romans
- 2
- Timeline: Anglo-Saxons
- 3
- Timeline: Christianity
- 4
- Timeline: Viking Invasion
- 5
- Timeline: truce to divide England
- 6
- Timeline: Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
- 7
- TImeline: Canute
- 8
- Timeline: Edward the Confessor
- 9
- Timeline: Edward died, Normn conquest
- 10