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0 1: The Anglo-Saxons
02 Language and Literature
03 Heroic Poetry
04 Religious Poetry
0 Religious Prose
06 Manuscript Culture
07 Cosmography
08 Lyrics
09 Magic
0 Homiletics and the Benedictine Reform
Vikings!
2 Alfred
3 Law and Gender
4 Practical Old English

.: rollover flashcards: Old English Key Concepts 2015–2016 :.

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A long embroidered cloth from 1070s Norman England visually depicting the Norman Conquest	Bayeux Tapestry
A decorative style, found in the visual arts and especially in the metalwork of early medieval northern Europe, involving intertwining ribbons, often terminating in animal heads	Interlace
An independent, Scandinavian-ruled territory in northern England from 886 until 954; in the intervening period, the northern territories were gradually won back by the House of Wessex	Danelaw
A religion based on individual salvation	Universal religion
Roman Britain, c. 43 CE–c. 410 CE	Britannia
The practice of identifying foreign deities with approximate Roman equivalents, e.g. reading Mercury for Wodan	Interpretatio romana
A state governed under heavy influence of a more powerful state	Client state
The North Sea Germanic language family: Old Frisian, Old English, Old Saxon	Ingvaeonic