Brit Lit - Anglo Saxons

Cyninng

King/clan leader

Eoris

landowners

Freeman

owned small parcels/slaves

Churls

slaves

Moot

Group of elders, respected Eoris and freeman who elect the king

Flyting

boasting/ego building

Wyrd

Fate

Comitatus

moral code for allegience to the knig

mead hall

place for shelter/food and clan gatherings

Weregild

blood price, “man gold”

Caesura

pause diving line of poetry, typically to give the reader a break

Alliteration

same constanant sound being repeated

Kenning

condensed metaphor renaming a noun

Epithets

Show the qualities or traits of a noun

Assonance

repeated vowel signs

Scop

the poets, would use a harp and sing

From 700-900AD, due to who’s unfluence does language spread

King Alfred'

Order of invasions

Celts, Romans, Vikings, Angles/Saxons/Jutes, Normans

The Book of Exeter

Collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and oral stories eventually written down

Elegies

Poems expressing sadness and loss

Who compiled the book of Exeter

monks under King Alfred

Interlinear

line by line translation, word by word

Concept

keeps gist of the original text but it makes it more accessable to the target reading audience

Loose

attempts to keep the tone, form, and literary deices, minor changes for a modern audience

Epic

long narrative poem relaying great deeds of a hero embodying soceity’s ideals

Folk Epic

Oral, and changed over time

Literary Epic

written down, and unchanged over time

archetype

typical example of a person or thing

Epic conventions

Invocation, action in media res, flashback, similies, Hero

characteristics of riddles

alliteration, kennings, rhythm

Split of language

Indoprotoeuropean —> Germanic —> West Germanic —> Anglo Fresian