Authors
"The Wife of Bath's Tale"
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
The original language of Beowulf
What is Old English?
"The Seafarer"
Occurred in 1066 and resulted in a French ruler of England
What is the Norman Conquest?
A set of five short lines with an ABABA rhyme scheme that appears at the end of each stanza in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
What is a bob and wheel?
Beowulf
What is anonymous?
The original language of "Lanval"
What is Old French or Anglo-Norman?
Beowulf
What is an epic poem?
The arrival and settling of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes in Brittania following the fall of the Roman Empire.
What is the Anglo-Saxon Invasion?
Metaphorical representation of one thing through the compounding of two nouns. Commonly appears in Old English poetry.
What is a kenning?
Le Morte Darthur
Who is Sir Thomas Malory?
The original language of "St. Edmund, King & Martyr"
What is Latin?
The Canterbury Tales
What is an estate satire?
Item recording the events of the Norman Conquest
What is the Bayeux Tapestry?
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of multiple words in a line of poetry. Use in many (but not all) Old and Middle English poems.
What is alliteration?
History of the Kings of Britain
The original language of "The Wife's Lament"
What is Old English?
"St. Edmund, King & Martyr"
What is a hagiography?
The event that almost destroyed the Nowell Codex, containing the only surviving copy of Beowulf
What is the Ashburnham House Fire?
A code of behavior for knights to follow, including serving God, their lord, and ladies.
Who is the Marie de France?
The original language of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
What is Middle English?
"The Wife of Bath's Tale"
What is a romance?
The three estate classes of the later medieval period as represented by the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales
A trope used within Sir Gawain and the Green Knight which involves an agreement to give one another anything that was earned or acquired that day.
What is the exchange of winnings?