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Debris
100
The dates for the Anglo-Saxon period.
What is 449- 1066?
100
The owner of the castle plagued by Grendel for 12 years.
Who is Hrothgar?
100
The last line or two of each stanza that is repeated.
What is the refrain?
100
"A set of beads, the gaudies tricked in green, whence hung a golden brooch of brightest sheen"
Who is the prioress?
100
Sir Gawain's trusty steed.
What is Gringolet?
200
The major event of 1066.
What is the Battle of Hastings?
200
The writer of A History of the English Church and People.
Who is the Venerable Bede?
200
A tribe's historian.
What is a scop?
200
"Of air and hnoest man need never fear. But still, the third day, there in my castle you failed and you felt that, here."
What is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
200
This book is a record of all property owned, created under William the Conqueror.
What is Domesday Book?
300
The major war spanning from 1337 - 1453.
What is The Hundred Years War?
300
Established the first monastery in Canterbury.
Who is Saint Augustine?
300
Another name for stanza.
What is a strophe?
300
"Each of us carried a naked sword, prepared for whales or the swift sharp teeth and beaks of needlefish."
What is Beowulf?
300
In poetry a short line of 1-3 syllables, followed by four short rhymed lines.
What is a bob and wheel?
400
The war spanning between the years 1455 - 1485.
What is the War of the Roses?
400
The author of Everyman.
Who is anonymous?
400
A brief story used to make a point in an argument.
What is exemplum?
400
"All glory is tarnished. The world's honour and ages shrinks, Bent like the men who mold it."
What is The Seafarer?
400
Beowulf's birthplace.
What is Geatland?
500
The year the Magna Carta was signed.
What is 1215?
500
A page, courtier, translator, diplomat, civil administrator.
Who is Chaucer?
500
The law that gives all possessions to the first born son upon the father's death.
What is primogeniture?
500
Only fire,/They had planned, could shatter wah such skill had put/ Together, swallow in hot flames such splendor/Of ivory and iron and wood."
What is Beowulf?
500
A pair of rhymed iambic pentametre lines.
What is a heroic couplet?
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