The Anglo-Saxon Age: Vocabulary


Alliteration

Allusion

Beast fable

Courtly love

Caesura

Didactic

Epic

Fabliau

Gnomic verse

Humours

Kenning

Lay (also spelled lai)

Romance

Wergild

Wyrd

 

Proper Names to remember in Beowulf:

The Danes (also called Scyldings)

Danish Monsters

The Geats (also called Weder people, lived in Southern Sweden)

Geatish Monsters

The Heathobards

The Brondings

The Frisians The Angels The Swedes (also called Scylfings)

Undesignated heroes

Names of swords

 

Terms for Review (Everyman and Faustus):
quem quaeritis
mysterium
Psychomachia
Ars Moriendi
morality play
Wakefield Master
antiphons
universal history
trade guilds
pageant wagons
Corpus Christi
personification allegory
penance
seven deadly sins
Purgatory
John Wycliffe
simony