What is the significance of this date?
43 B.C. – 410 A.D.
The Romans were occupying England
The name for the study of the organization of sounds in a language
Phonology
Championed the English language and scholarship during the 9th century
King Alfred
The explanation of major shifts in consonant sounds as they moved from Proto‐Indo‐European to languages in the Germanic family?
Grimm's Law or The First Sound Shift
Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" is this genre of storytelling
Chivalric Romance
597 A.D.
St. Augustine arrives in England
The study of word formation and the role of affixes in word formation?
Morphology
Monarch credited with the rise of Chivalric Romance in England
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Explanation for consonants that do not follow the major shifts we expect as they moved from Proto‐Indo‐European to languages in the Germanic family
Verner's Law
Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" is this genre of storytelling
Fabliau (Medieval bawdy tale)
1154 A.D.
Last entry in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Source of runes used by scribes writing in Old English
FUTHORC
The name of the King who ended the Peasant's Revolt
Richard II
King Alfred's dialect
West Saxon
Where "Caedmon's Hymn" was first recorded
The Lindisfarne Gospels
1349‐1351 A.D.
Black death/bubonic plague wipes out 1/3 of English population
What does ASPR stand for?
Anglo-Saxon Poetic Record
King who lost Normandy to the French
King John
The Ruthwell Cross has an excerpt of this Anglo‐Saxon poem carved in runes on it
The Dream of the Rood
The significance of "Caedmon's Hymn"
The first English poet we know by name; Dream vision poem, set the pattern for Anglo-Saxon verse
1786 A.D.
Jakob Grimm publishes Grimm's Law
The names of all four runic letters used in Old English (as evidenced in Beowulf)
ash, thorn, eth, wynn
The first King to use English during his coronation since the Norman Conquest
Henry IV
Illuminated manuscript containing the oldest copy of the Gospels in English
Lindisfarne Gospels
Two books in the ASPR
Junius Manuscript, Exeter Book, Vercelli Book, Nowell Codex/Cotton Vitellius (also The Paris Psalter and the Meters of Boethius, The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems)