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Language Arts
Middle Ages (Old English, Middle English, Chaucer, Ivanhoe)
| Question/Vocabulary | Answer/Definition |
|---|---|
| What languages make up old English? | Celtic (aboriginies) + Latin (Roman Empire) + Anglo Saxon (Germanic Tribes) = old English |
| Alphabet used in old English | Runic |
| Old English sounds like... | German |
| Vikings | Germanic Tribes (Anglo, Saxon, & Jutes) |
| author of Beowolf | unknown |
| Beowolf is important beacause... | it was the first story written in old English |
| How did Middle English form? | Wiliam of Normandy and his French Vikings conquered England adding French to the language |
| William of Normandy | French Viking, 1066 |
| Who wrote the Canterbury Tales? | Geoffery Chaucer |
| When did the Canterbury Tales take place? | 1066 |
| How many stories did Chaucer record? | 23 |
| pilgrimage | religious journey |
| Who wrote Ivanhoe? | Sir Walter Scott |
| When does Ivanhoe take place? | 1194 AD |
| YEOMAN | free man, often a farmer of forester in the service of a knight |
| THE PRIORESS | nun in charge of convent |
| CLERK | member of clergy or a student preparing for holy orders, scholar at Oxford |
| SERGENT OF THE LAW | one of the crown's most respected legal officers. judges of the king's courts |
| THE FRANKLIN | free man, land holder |
| FIVE GUILDSMEN | tradesmen |
| COOK | owner of a cook shop in London |
| WIFE OF BATH | widow, housewife, from the city of Bath |
| PARSON | parish priest, lower free class, educated |
| MANCIPLE | steward, like manager or housekeeper, planned meals, supervised servants, and bought food |
| MILLER | ran a grist mill to which farmers bought their grain to be ground into flour |
| THE PARDONER | clergyman authorized by the Pope to sell forgiveness to sins not yet commited, money went to the church |
| MONK | religious leader |
| SQUIRE | young bachelor |
| KNIGHT | trust worthy, chivalrous |
| How many stories IN ALL were told during the Canterbury Tales? | 128 |
| Grendel | monster in Beowolf |
| Nageling | King Hygelac's sword (Beowolf) |
| Nixies | a type of sea monster (Beowolf) |
| Herot | fort/hall built by King Hrothgar |