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33 Cards in this Set
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Beowulf manuscripts, author, etc.
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originally told in Old English and written in 700 in Old English
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Alliteration
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the repetition of initial consonant sounds in accented syllables
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Allusion
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reference to something well known in history
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Caesura
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rhythmic breaks in the middle of lines, where the reciter could pause for a breath
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Kennings
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two-word poetic renaming of people, places, and things, such as the kenning whales home for the sea
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Similies
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compares two apparently dissimilar things
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Meadhall
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a king would build a hall where mead was served to reward his thanes
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Thanes
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early noblemen for England, would fight for the kings
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Anglo-Saxons required by law to avenge death of a loved one
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Scop
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travelling storytellers who memorized, adapted, and passed along oral tradition of stores and songs
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Foreshaddowing
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to present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand
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Didactic
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intending to learn as wall as to entertain (type of work Beowulf is)
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In medias res
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start some where other the beginning
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patriarchal society
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society headed by men
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elegy
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a lyric poem mourning the loss of someone or something
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Exeter Book
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collection of manuscripts that includes pieces of oral tradition
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homeric/heroic similie
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extended, extended, extended similie
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2,500 BC
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cave dwellers first inhabitors
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2,000 BC
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invades from Iberian Peninsula; in Sweden they built Stonehenge
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600 BC - 55 BC
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Celtic tribes from Central Europe, moved north to N. France and N. Germany
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Brytons
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religion: animism (all of nature is alive with spiritis)
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Celtics
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priests were Druids
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ex: Brytons, Argyles, Gaels
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Druids
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mistletoe was very fertile, should be protective
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55 BC - 410 AD
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Romans invade, conquer Brythons, push them west to hide in Cornwall
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Romans
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brought Christianity to the area
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Brytons after Romans
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language was mixed with Latin
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450 AD - 1066 AD
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Anglo-Saxons pushed the Celtic-Brytons west again, in constant war
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fought for centuries, kept out of Wales, Cornwall–>Celts dwindle
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Anglo-Saxons
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language: Germanic tongue and Latin and few Celtic words
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Late 500's
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Columba gains converts to Chrsitianity
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800's
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Norse of Norway and Danes attack Ireland and England
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Anglo-Saxon poetry
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heroic poetry: recounting achievements of warriors
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