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What was the place where people would worship pagan gods throughout the week
Stonehedge
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Where is the Stonehedge located
Plains of Salisbury
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English literature began with who
Anglo Saxons
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Who settled in the fifth century A.D.
Anglo Saxon
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The Anglo Saxon believe a mysterious power that ruled the unrevised was
Wyrd, and Fate
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First literature of the Anglo Saxon was
Poetry
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What was not written, but rather recited or sung
Poetry
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The five striking characteristics of the Anglos Saxon
- 1. love if freedom
- 2. Responsiveness to nature, especially in her sterner mood
- 3. strong religion convictions and a belief un wyrd or fate
- 4. reverence for womanhood
- 5. a devotion to glory as the ruling motive in every warrior’s life
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An Anglo Saxon poet was called
Scop
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Who also recited poems but was also a performer, chanter, jester and entitaner
Gleeman
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Anglo saxon poetry was composed of two half lines separated by
pause or caerura
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What literary term means stressing certain syllables or words
Accent
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What literary term means beginning words with the same syllables sound
Alliteration
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Repetition of ideas in slightly differing form
Parallelisms
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Poetry abounds with parallelisms, compounds, synonyms, and strong metaphorical expressions called
Kennings
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The greatest of the Anglo-Saxon poems and the oldest surviving epic of any Germanic people is
Beowulf
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Beowulf has many traditional qualities of an epic
- 1. It is about a great national hero
- 2. It is written in lofty language
- 3. It contains supernatural elements
- 4. It explores the of good and evil
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Is a story about a man who struggling against three monstrous and mysterious in carnations of evil
Beowulf
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What were the three monster that Beowulf fought
Grendel, Grendel’s Mother, and a fire breathing dragon
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King Hrothgar built a great hall meaning hart-hall
Heorot
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what was the years of the Anglo-Saxon Period
449-1066
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What are some other Anglo-Saxon poems besides beowulf
The Seafarer
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what are some other Anglo-Saxon riddles
Bookworm, Mead
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Who wrote the ecclesiastical history of the English people
Venerable Bede
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Became the center of culture in England in the seventieth century
Northumbria
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The founder of English history
The Venerable Bede
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The first Anglo-Saxon poet whose name we know
Caedmon
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The gospel of john is from a book of Gospels called
Book if Lindisfarne
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Who was the founder if English prose and the first English man of letters who was not a churchman
Alfred the Great
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Who made Englishmen aware of their common history
Alfred the great
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Is a story about a king that doesn’t know what to do with his faith
The conversion of the king
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Is a story about a man that was called by god to sing praises
The story of Caedmon
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Who sang hymn about and religious things
caedmon
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What is the English language
Germanic
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What are the three periods
Old English, middle English, modern English
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What year and what language is the modern period
1500- present normal english
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What year and what language is the old period
240-1150 Anglo Saxon
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What year and what language is the middle period
1150-1500 medieval
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