Beowulf Test

Front 1

Beowulf manuscripts, author, etc.

Back 1

originally told in Old English and written in 700 in Old English

Front 2

Alliteration

Back 2

the repetition of initial consonant sounds in accented syllables

Front 3

Allusion

Back 3

reference to something well known in history

Front 4

Caesura

Back 4

rhythmic breaks in the middle of lines, where the reciter could pause for a breath

Front 5

Kennings

Back 5

two-word poetic renaming of people, places, and things, such as the kenning whales home for the sea

Front 6

Similies

Back 6

compares two apparently dissimilar things

Front 7

Meadhall

Back 7

a king would build a hall where mead was served to reward his thanes

Front 8

Thanes

Back 8

early noblemen for England, would fight for the kings

Back 9

Anglo-Saxons required by law to avenge death of a loved one

Front 10

Scop

Back 10

travelling storytellers who memorized, adapted, and passed along oral tradition of stores and songs

Front 11

Foreshaddowing

Back 11

to present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand

Front 12

Didactic

Back 12

intending to learn as wall as to entertain (type of work Beowulf is)

Front 13

In medias res

Back 13

start some where other the beginning

Front 14

patriarchal society

Back 14

society headed by men

Front 15

elegy

Back 15

a lyric poem mourning the loss of someone or something

Front 16

Exeter Book

Back 16

collection of manuscripts that includes pieces of oral tradition

Front 17

homeric/heroic similie

Back 17

extended, extended, extended similie

Front 18

2,500 BC

Back 18

cave dwellers first inhabitors

Front 19

2,000 BC

Back 19

invades from Iberian Peninsula; in Sweden they built Stonehenge

Front 20

600 BC - 55 BC

Back 20

Celtic tribes from Central Europe, moved north to N. France and N. Germany

Front 21

Brytons

Back 21

religion: animism (all of nature is alive with spiritis)

Front 22

Celtics

Back 22

priests were Druids

Front 23

ex: Brytons, Argyles, Gaels

Front 24

Druids

Back 24

mistletoe was very fertile, should be protective

Front 25

55 BC - 410 AD

Back 25

Romans invade, conquer Brythons, push them west to hide in Cornwall

Front 26

Romans

Back 26

brought Christianity to the area

Front 27

Brytons after Romans

Back 27

language was mixed with Latin

Front 28

450 AD - 1066 AD

Back 28

Anglo-Saxons pushed the Celtic-Brytons west again, in constant war

Front 29

fought for centuries, kept out of Wales, Cornwall–>Celts dwindle

Front 30

Anglo-Saxons

Back 30

language: Germanic tongue and Latin and few Celtic words

Front 31

Late 500's

Back 31

Columba gains converts to Chrsitianity

Front 32

800's

Back 32

Norse of Norway and Danes attack Ireland and England

Front 33

Anglo-Saxon poetry

Back 33

heroic poetry: recounting achievements of warriors