The Origins I
Who arrived in Britain around 700 BC?
The Celts
The name of the wall that marked the border between the Britons and the Scots
Hadrian's Wall
The date of the Norman Conquest
1066
The name of the oldest surviving epic poem
Beowulf
Who were the first and last king/queen of the Tudor dynasty?
Henry VIII and Elizabeth I
What they built
Hill Forts
The name of the invaders from the North Sea Region
Angles, Saxons and Jutes
The Battle of Hastings was recorded in a tapestry called...
The Bayeux Tapestry
List 3 characters of the oldest survivng epic poem
Beowulf, Grendel, Grendel's mother, a dragon
Henry VIII declared himself Head of the Church of England. When ? Name of the Act
Act of Supremacy 1534
Celts' priests were called...
Druids
Who brought Christianity back to England in 597?
Monk Augustine
List the main parts of the Feudal Society
King, Nobles/Barons, Knights, Peasants
A formulaic phrase that is used in place of a name or noun
Kenning
How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
154
The Romans conquered Britain in...
43-47 AD
The English commonly called "the Vikings"...
The Danes
Name of a book in which all properties were recorded
Domesday Book
The most famous medieval narrative poem: author and title
Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Canterbury Tales"
Who were the addresses of Shakespeare's Sonnets?
The fair youth (the Earl of Southampton) and the Dark Lady
How many kilometres of paved roads did the Romans build?
over 9,600 km
Name of a tax paid to the Vikings to be left alone
Danegeld
When was the Magna Carta signed?
What happened to "Lord Randal" in the ballad?
His true love has poisoned Lord Randal and is about to die
Read out the first line of Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?