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18 Cards in this Set
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Celts |
Brythons- Main island Gaels- Ireland Migrated from South Europe 800-600 BC hunters and gathers |
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Small clans loyal to chieftain Pagans |
Druids (priests) |
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Roman Invasion |
55 BC (Julius Caesar) |
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Anglo Saxon Period |
449-1066 |
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3 Germanic tribes |
Angles Saxons Jutes |
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St. Augustine converts King Ethelbert |
597 |
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Vikings |
Late 700's (norse's and danes) invaded England |
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Norman Invasion |
after 1066 led by William the Conqueror...Duke of Normandy |
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1st King of England |
Alfred the Great 871-899 |
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1042 1066 |
King Edward the confessor regains Saxon rule at death Saxon councils names Harold King |
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The middle Ages |
0-1485 |
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Heroic |
Anglo Saxon hero poetry |
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elegiac |
Anglo Saxon grieving poetry |
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Scop |
traveling ministries that recited long narrative poems |
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Old english came to north sea coast |
king Alfred told Saxons to write in a language they know |
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Caesuras |
rhythum breaks |
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Kennings |
2 word poetic rename of people, place and things |
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Beowulf |
famous herioc...no one knows who wrote it |
