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The traits or virtues most admired during this period
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Loyalty, bravery, friendship, generosity
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The invaders of England during this period
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Iberans, Celts, Romans, Angles and Saxons, Vikings and the Normans
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Bayeaux Tapestry
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Cloth, Few surviving pieces of art which depicted a battle
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Britons
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A group of warriors, they left their stamp in (Britain), eventually adopted by the land they settled
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Animism
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"spirit" in everything, trees, clouds, living, mother earth, etc. - Religion
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Druids
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Priests who served and acted as intermediaries between God s and the people
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Stonehenge
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Used by Druids for religious rites having to do with the solar and lunar cycles
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Celts
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Tall blond warriors, their mythology has influenced English and Irish writers to this day
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Hadrian's Wall
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Seventy three mile defensive barrier built by emperor Hadrian in about A.D. 122. to prevent sieges
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Arthur
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Heroic Celtic leader in legend "once and future king" of Britain and became embodiment of English values
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Alfred the Great
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King, unified the Anglo Saxons, fought to protect people from the Danes.
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1066
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Anglo Saxons and Danes fought until defeated by the Normans. Norman Conquest 1066 family homesteads.
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community
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Pattern of loyal dependency was basic to Anglo Saxon life, lived close to their animals in single
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Sutton Hoo
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1939, archaeologists discovered burial treasure for a king or noble warrior in Sutton Hoo Suffolk, England
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abbesses
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Usually from noble families, in charge of large double houses including monastery and nunnery.
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Hild
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The abbess of Abbey was one of the most famous abbesses. Turned Whitby into center of learning, accumulating a large library
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Whitby Abbey
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Center of learning
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Odin
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Important Norse God, Odin. The God of death, poetry, and magic
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Swastika
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Found on Anglo-Saxon gravestone. Possibly came from Thor, it was his sign.
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Thor
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The Norse god of thunder and lightning, his sign was a hammer and swastika
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"Protector of the treasure"
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Significant figure, the dragon. Protector of treasure. Personification of "'death the devourer" and guardian
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Communal Hall
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Offered shelter and place of meeting, provided space for storytellers and their audience
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Monasteries
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Monks lived and centers of learning Preserved Latin and Greek classics and great literature such as Beowulf
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Latin
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remained the language of "serious" study in England until time of King Alfred
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Scriptorium
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In a covered walkway opened to a court, writing room where monks spent hours copying manuscripts by hand
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
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Alfred instituted the Anglo Saxon Chronicles a lengthy running history of England that covered the earliest days and continued until 1554
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