Quiz 1 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Canonical hours?
Matins (nighttime) Lauds (early morning) Prime (first hour of daylight) Terce (third hour) Sext (noon) Nones (ninth hour) Vespers (sunset evening) Compline (end of the day)
Coracle?
Wicker boat built by Brendan with animal skin coverings
When was St. Brendan?
6th century
What happened in 1,000?
Christianity brought to the vikings
Saint Patrick?
Patron saint of Ireland, known for bringing christianity to Ireland; was captured as a boy and brought from England to Ireland
Erik the Red?
Discovered Greenland b/c he was exiled, settled there
What genre is writing about the lives of saints?
Hagiography
What is a hermit?
A person living in solitude as a religious discipline
Immram of Mael Duin?
Similar story to Brendan’s; maybe influenced
what is a monk?
a member of a religious community of men typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
What was the original language of Brendan?
Latin
What was the original language of Ref the Sly?
Old Norse
what is a saga?
a long story of heroic achievement
Valued products from Greenland?
walrus-hide ropes, polar bears, falcons, walrus ivory, walrus fur
Symbolic meaning of 3?
Holy trinity
Symbolic meaning of 7?
The human directionals in the world
Symbolic meaning of 12?
The 12 apostles
Symbolic meaning of 40?
Forty years Moses spent in the desert
Where Ref went and why?
From Icelandic home to Uncle Gest b/c killed Thorbjorn
From Uncle Test to small settlement in Greenland for killing Gellir
From small settlement to small fjord for killing Thorgil & family
From small fjord b/c attacked by Gunnar and Bard to Norway to talk with King of Norway
From Norway to Denmark for killing Grani
Who is Jasconius?
Large fish from St. Brendan; thought it was an island
Who wrote the first recorded English poem and what language?
Caedmon, Old English
Who recorded Caedmon and other religious histories and in what at what time?
Bede in his book The Ecclesiastical History of the English People in the 8th century
Types if biographies?
Hagiography and saga
When was the Saga of Ref the Sly written?
13th century
