Old English Flashcards

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Old English phrases
He came with his ship
There was
How do you do your job
She goes to the city
The king rules over the land
Surrender your god to me in hell
To weave words

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Hē cōm mid his scipe
Þær wæs
Hu begæst þu cræft þinnew
Heo gæð to þære ceastre
Se cyning rīcsiað ofter þæt land
Geforðia eower dōmne tō mē on helle
Wordum wrixlan

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Angle saxon gods and They survive in what
What was the domesday book, when was it taken and who ordered it
Where does England get its name
The Anglo Saxon chronicles were written between these
This king of Wessex reformed the army and kept the vikings out of wessex, when did he live and what dialect did he speak

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Tiw, woden and thunor and The days of the week
A survey, 1086 and William the conqueror
The angles, they dominated the jutes and Saxons
The reign of king Alfred and the Norman invasion
King Alfred, ninth century and early west saxon

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Define:
Formy(eth)islag
Eidolon
Infidel
Absolution

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Old norse poetic meter of four stressed syllables in a line and four lined in a stanza
A ghost
A person who is one religion and follows another
Formal release from guilt

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4
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Remove

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Dante and inferno
Homer’s ilad

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5
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Type of poetry common in the exter book
What is gnomic verse

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Genomic verse
Wisdom in verse that imparts moral lessons

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How many silent letters were pronounced
How many double letters were said
How many tenses were there
Riddle ‘ic ane geseah ideae sittan’ translate
What did girl mean

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All of them
All of them
Two
I saw a woman sitting alone
Any youngen

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