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Anglo-Saxon Period
SAHS British Lit Mid-term
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The Celts | were farmers and hunters organized into tightly knit clans |
| Animism | celtic religion, saw spirit everywhere |
| Druids | a class of priest who presided over religious rituals |
| Hadrian's Wall | a wall built by the Romans to protect from Picts and Scots |
| Early Anglo-Saxon Life | the angles, saxons and jutes came from Denmark, Holland, Germany, and Scandinavia and fought the Celts to take over parts of the island |
| Anglo-Saxon Society | each tribe ruled by a king chosen by elders three levels of society the Thanes (upper Class warriors), Thralls (slaves), and Freemen (small group who earned possessions and special favors) |
| Old English | was a language that developed out of the small kingdoms merging into 7 large ones: Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex, Sussex, Essex, East Anglia, Kent |
| Characteristics of Anglo-Saxons | hard fighters, bold warriors, admired for physical strength, bravery, loyalty, fairness and honesty |
| Role of Ango-Saxon Women | inherited property, many went into religious communities with the coming of Christianity |
| Heroic Poetry | recounts the achievements of warriors involved in great battles |
| Elegiac Poetry | sorrowful laments that mourn the deaths of loved ones and the loss of the past |
| Caedmon and Cynewulf | were two anglo-saxon poets |
| The Scops | a communal hall offering shelter and a place for council meetings, also a place for storytellers or bards to share their stories |
| The Anglo-Saxons valued storytelling as equal to | fighting,hunting, and farming |
| Beowolf | is an epic |
| an Epic | is a long, heroic poem, about a great pagan warrior renowned for his courage, strength, and dignity, references to christian ideas and latin classics |
| Anglo-Saxon Beliefs | pagan, polytheistic, pessimistic view of life, human life is in the hands of fate |
| The Venerable Bede | a monk considered the father of english history, and wrote a History of the English Church and People |
| Alfred the Great | king of Wessex and fought off the Danes, he translated the Bede's history and other works from Latin into english |
| Viking Raids | sacked and plundered monasteries, stole sacred religious objects, burned communities, murdered villagers, halted the growth of learning |
| Danelaw | the name of the new territory that the Vikings had gained in the middle of the ninth century |
| Danelaw contributions were | military fortresses and trading centers, expanded english vocabulary |
| King Edward the Confessor | was a christian who by his association with the Normans weakened Saxon Power |
| Battle of Hastings | William of Normandy defeats Harrold |
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