Anglo-Saxon Social Classes
The responsibilities of Anglo-Saxon Royals
What is leading armies?
Thanes are central to the idea of Anglo-Saxon stories because
What is they represent some of the important customs in the culture?
The Anglo-Saxons came from ______________.
What is the area surrounding the border of present day Germany and Denmark?
What group of people took over the Anglo-Saxons previous land?
Who were the Norman's?
The Bayeux tapestry shows that the Anglo-Saxons thought _____ about disloyalty
What is disloyalty will lead to death?
The responsibilities of Thanes
What is overseeing villages?
Being loyal to the king, mending structures, and enforcing the law were three ____ for Thanes.
Responsibilities
The Anglo-Saxon contained cultural connections to Scandinavia, why might this be?
What is Denmark and Northern Germany were influenced by Scandinavian culture back then.
The Normans _______ the state of the region.
What is modernized?
This organization if broken could lead to death.
What is Hierarchy?
The responsibilities of the common peoples
What is serving their thane?
This adjective can describe a something that Thanes received a lot of and something they received from their overlords/kings.
What is power and lots of gifts?
What is they wanted to keep their ancestry and share it with future generations?
The Anglo-Saxon people viewed the Norman Conquest as _______.
What is negatively?
The Bayeux tapestry shows Anglo-Saxon ______ and _______ in action when broken.
What is social relationships and political power?
The rights of slaves were ______
What is the ability to buy their freedom?
Oegns were buried with their helmets because____.
What is helmets denoting the deceased's rank?
When the vikings arrived in England where the Anglo-Saxons were living what happened?
What is there were battles for land as well as the intermingling of the two cultures?
The Anglo-Saxon people looked back nostalgically to the past because ______.
When revenge was acceptable in Anglo Saxon Culture?
What is in cases of violence and murder?
The names of each level of social hierarchy were ____
What is The Royal Family/Earls, The Thanes, The Common People, and finally the Slaves?
Helmets were ____ to remember the wearers status
What is put in or at their burial site?
The interactions between Anglo-Saxons and Vikings were not always hostile, but how did book written about each other portray the others culture?
What is demonizing, they despised each other in their literature?
Something that happened when loyalty relationship bonds were broken.
What is a lawsuit would be filed against the party who broke the bond?
The worst crimes were ______ additionally, most disputes were settled by ________
What is murder and what are Lawsuits that ended in fines?