Test 2 Flashcards
History of the word fair
Old English- fager “beautiful/attractive”
End of 12th century- “beautiful”, but also “free of injustice”
13th century- and much of Middle English- unblemished
16th century- “beautiful”, but also “fair-haired”
18th century- “so-so, adequate”
present day- all of the above and “uncloudy”
Old English prose
represented by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
a history of the Anglo-Saxons and of Old English
Beowulf
not Christian
pagan verse epic
identify sounds of the Lord’s prayer
read throug it twice
Grim’s Law and 3 variations
Rules formed by Jakob Grimm, detailing the regular changes in the Indo-European stops in Germanic langauges
Calc
a translation of the Gospel
loan translation
Bede
author of Ecclesiastical History of the English people
completed in 731
Alcuin of New York
scholar
made director of Charlemagne’s Palace School
Alfred the Great
King of Wessex
unified England against Danish Invaders
thought to have commissioned the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
semantic changes
Generalization & Narrowing
Amelioration & Pejoration
Strengthening & Weakening
Abstraction & Concretization
Shift in Denotation
Shift in Connotation
Caedmon
7th century
one of the only known Old english poets
43-50 AD
Claudies’s successful colonization
449 AD
Anglo-Saxon Invasion
500-850 AD
Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy
597 AD
beginning of Anglo-Saxon Christianization
Pope Gregory 1 sends Augustine of Canterbury to Kent
