People
Inhabitants of Scotland at the time of the Roman Conquest.
Picts
Legendary king of the Britons, on whom many medieval English legends are based.
King Arthur
Professional poets.
United the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and ordered the record of English history known as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Alfred the Great
Long narrative poem that traces the adventures of a hero whose actions consists of courageous deeds, which often represent the ideals and values of a nation or race.
Epic poems
Invaders from Denmark and Norway.
Vikings
Code of honor intended to govern knightly behavior.
Chivalry
Author of Le Morte d’Arthur.
Sir Thomas Mallory
Forced to sign the Magna Carta by the English barons.
King John
Narrative songs telling the lives of common folks.
Ballads
Germanic tribes that settled in England when Roman control weakened.
Angles and Saxons
Language resulting from the mixing of Celtic, Latin, and Germanic.
Old English
Author of A History of the English Church and People.
Venerable Bede
Reformed the judicial system that would eventually be called Common Law.
Henry II
Short poems where a single speaker express personal thoughts and feelings.
Lyric poems
Name the Romans gave to the Celtic inhabitants of present-day England.
Britons
Fate
Wyrd
Even though he was from Rome, he established a monastery in Canterbury in 597.
Augustine
Spent much of his reign fighting wars abroad.
Richard the Lion Hearted
Story told within a narrative setting (story within a story).
Frame Story
Inhabitants of Wales at the time of the Roman Conquest.
Gaels
Extraordinary tax record of every bit of property owned, from fishponds to litters of pigs, down to the smallest detail.
Domesday Book
Author of a Latin “history’ based on old Welsh legends.
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Killed Harold II and was crowned the first king of England
William the Conqueror
Literature that is memorized and performed, not written down
Oral Art form