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30 Cards in this Set
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Bedecked |
-Decorated |
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Foundling |
-an orphan; abandoned infant |
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Hence |
-"from here"; away |
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-a coat of flexible metal armor, usually comprised of interlocking rings or metal scales |
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Stalwart |
-brave; hardy, sturdy, strong |
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Tenure |
-the time period during which one holds an office or position |
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Waxed |
-grew |
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Wrested |
-forced from or took by force |
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Dire |
-dreadful, threatening |
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Fens |
-swaps, marshes, bogs |
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Jubilant |
-joyful; triumphant |
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Pinnacles |
-peaks |
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Sovereign |
-a king, ruler |
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Arbiter |
-a judge |
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Betimes |
-sometimes, at times |
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Bowers |
-private rooms in a Medieval hall |
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Brook |
-to tolerate |
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Illustrious |
-renowned for a position or dead |
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Lament |
-grief, sorrow |
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Nefariously |
-evilly, wickedly |
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Parley |
-a meeting between hostile parties to discuss peace |
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Sore |
-serious; difficult |
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Thanes |
-people who hold lands from their lord; liegemen, soldiers |
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Travels |
-sorrows; hardships |
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Unremittant |
-without pause, unceasing |
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Wight |
-a living being; a creature |
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Danes |
-the residents of Denmark, Hrothgar, Hrothulf, and the Scolding dynasty of kings |
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Mead-benches |
-a place of feast in a mead-hall where warriors gather to feast under the protection of their king |
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Blood-gold |
-the act of forestalling vengeance in Scandinavian societies |
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Geats |
-seafaring tribe from the south of Sweden |
