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37 Cards in this Set
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50 BC
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Romans founded England
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122 AD
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Emperor Hadrian built a wall in defense
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410 AD
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Romans left
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450 AD
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Anglo-Saxon period began, lots of people moving to England, roads built, farm land
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450 AD
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Anglo-Saxon period began, lots of people moving to England, roads built, farm land
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597 AD
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St. Augustine , converts England to Christianity
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731 AD
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Bede wrote the Ecclestrial History
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871-899 AD
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Reign of King Alfred the Great, promoted literacy, encouraged unerlings to read, Alfred put all his stuff in the anglo-saxon CHronicle
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1066 AD
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Battle of Hastings
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alliteration
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all the words begin with the same sound or letter
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alliteration
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all the words begin with the same sound or letter
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caesura
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the gap at the end of each line
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scop
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anglo-saxon word for storyteller
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kennings
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two nouns linked together
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wergild
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compensation to the family of a deceased thane, payed by the killer
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wittan
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The King's council (usually old warriors)
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wyrd
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fate, density
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Heort
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hall of the hart
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thanes
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the highest warriors
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commitatus
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-latin for loyalty
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hubris
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greek for "what goes around comes around", more or less, dont defy the Gods
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in medias res
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in the midst of things
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deus ex machina
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god from the machine
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boon
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a favor, to talk with you
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elogy
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sad, mournful poem about loss
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Beowulf
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Geatish hero, fought Grendel, Grendel's mother, dragon
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King Hrothgar
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king of the danes, grendel attacks his land
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Grendel
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eats a dane (king hrothgar's men), in the mead hall, Heorot. while they were sleeping.
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Grendel's mother
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Grendel's mom, defeated by Beowulf
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Unferth
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danish warrior, gives Beowulf a sword, Hrunting
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Hrunting
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the sword given to Beowulf by Unferth, its supposed to be a good sword, but it breaks when he fights the dragon
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Hygelac
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king of the geats, beowulf's uncle
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Wiglaf
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helps Beowulf fight the dragon
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Breca
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Beowulf's childhood friend, they swam together
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Scyld, son of Sceaf
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founder of the Danish line of Kings, the Scyldings
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Hygelac
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king of the Geats, married to Hygd
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Ecgtheow
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Beowulf's father, is actually dead
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