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100
The number of riddles in the Exeter book.
What is 90?
100
A term used to describe Old English lettering.
What is runic?
100
The beginning of the Old English period.
What is 450 AD?
100
They defeated the Anglo-Saxons in the Battle of Maldon.
Who are the Vikings?
100
The language spoken in England before Old English.
What is Celtic?
200
The Old English book that contained the epic poem Beowolf.
What is the Nowell Codex?
200
The Old English script that followed the Latin alphabet.
What is 'insular script'?
200
Three Germanic tribes that invaded England in the 5th century AD?
What are the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes?
200
An Old English poem about a man contemplating life and what it means to be wise.
What is 'The Wanderer'?
200
The Jutes occupied what is now this modern country?
What is Denmark?
300
The oldest of the known Old English texts.
What is the Vercelli Codex?
300
The Greek word that 'school' came from.
What is 'skhole'?
300
The language brought to England by the Normans.
What is French?
300
A crucifix described in a famous Old English poem about a dream.
What is a 'rood'?
300
The Angles and the Saxons crossed this to reach England.
What is the North Sea?
400
The city in Sweden that Beowolf returns to.
What is Geatland?
400
The word derived from the Latin 'coquina', or cooking room.
What is 'kitchen'?
400
A religion that strongly influenced Old English.
What is Christianity?
400
In The Seafarer, this is compared to life at sea.
What is life on land?
400
The monster in Beowolf.
Who is Grendel?
500
The king of the Danes in Beowolf.
Who was Hroðgar?
500
A word derived from the German meaning "children's garden".
What is 'kindergarten'?
500
The invader of England in 1066.
Who is William the Conqueror?
500
An Old English poem about how nature lasts longer than people or buildings.
What is "The Ruin"?
500
A Scandinavian burial mound.
What is a 'tumulus'?