Vocabulary terms
loathsome
What is describing something that is highly offensive or disgusting. It conveys a strong sense of aversion or repulsion.
Death in the Pardoner's Tale
Who did the 3 men see and ultimately feel the effects of?
religion spread
What is Christianity?
What did the host do?
The Green Knight's head was chopped off.
What happened 366 days before?
Purge
What is clearing, cleaning, or getting rid of something or someone unwanted, dirty, or bad?
The plot of The Wife of Bath's Tale
Why was the knight sent on a quest to discover what women most desire in order to save his life?
Popular Anglo-Saxon themes
What is fate, loyalty, and lasting fame?
Going to Canterbury
What was the point of the mission?
The green sash's origin
Who was the green knight's wife/king's wife?
Kennings
What is a two-word compound phrase used in Old English and Norse poetry?
Ex: (Razor-sharp, Sea-road, Sea-huge.)
brave and courageous hero
Who was Beowulf?
The language created during the Anglo-Saxon time period.
What is the English language?
The Doctor
Who was in charge of medicine?
Gawain had good character.
Why was he let free?
Thane
What is a freeman or local aristocrat who owned land and provided military support to the crown, roughly equivalent to a minor baron?
Arm in the meadhall
Where was grendals arm
Angilo Saxson tribes
What were the Angles, Saxons, and the Jutes?
Who led the prayers?
Who was the Friar?
The bubbling waterfall
What kind of waterfall did Gawain pass on the way to the castle?
Sinew
What are the tough bands or fibrous tissue, more commonly known as tendons, that connect muscle to bone?
Where was GRENDEL found?
England
What word comes from Angleland?
The student of the mission
Who was the Oxford cleric?
Who KISSED the king every night?
Who was Gawain?