Invaders
Who were the first people to invade England
Which is the first Heroic poem written?
Beowulf
What is Stonehenge?
A stone formation
The father of English literature who wrote the "Canterbury Tales"
Geoffrey Chaucer
A word derived from the German meaning "children's garden".
What is 'kindergarten'?
Who were the invaders bringing Germanic languages from the northern part of Europe?
Where was Beowulf from?
Southern Sweden
What name did the people have living in England even before the Romans invaded them?
The Celts
The "object" the knights were looking for in the King Arthur Story.
The Holy Grail.
The language brought to England by the Normans.
What is French?
What "Scandinavian" people invaded during the 8th century?
The Vikings
Which poem is considered one of- if not the- oldest ever written?
Cadmon’s Hymn
Writings made by Vikings still found today
Ruins
An idealized system of manners and morals important to the knights.
Chivalry.
The language spoken in England before Old English.
What is Celtic?
Who invaded in 1066?
William the Conqueror and the Normans
What author had a great impact on the more modern English language and is often considered the "father of English poetry" with stories like Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
The oldest heroic poem known in England retold as a spoken tradition before it was actually written down.
Beowulf
The sword in the King Arthur story is called what?
Excalibur.
The medieval forerunner of chemistry, concerned with the transmutation of matter, in particular with attempts to convert base metals into gold or find a universal elixir.
Alchemy
A Germanic people from southern Denmark.
Angles
An Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea.
The Seafarer
During what century were the first texts written down in "English".
7th century.
What astronomical object is believed to be visible in the Bayeux Tapestry?
Halley's Comet
What is a Privy?
A Restroom ("Where is the privy? I drank too many Bud Lights") or a private room or secret chambers (which one would hope a restroom is).