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Two groups of Celts that settled into the British territories
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Brythons and Gaels
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When did the Romans invade England?
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Many times, starting with 55 B.C.
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What were the Anglo-Saxons' beliefs?
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Pagan; fate controlled them
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What is a witan?
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Group of elders that determined the king of the tribe
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Tiu, Woden, Fria - What are these?
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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - gods and goddess of the Anglo-Saxons
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Who is Venerable Bede
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Monk who wrote The History of the Church and Its People
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Who is Alfred the Great?
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King who fought and held territory against the Danish
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Where did the word law come from?
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Danelaw
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Edward the Confessor
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A descendant of Alfred the Great, he was a Christian that took the English throne and, through associations, weakened Saxon power
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Spread of language
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Through oral tradition
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Scops and gleemen
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Minstrels and minstrels assistants
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Runes
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An alphabet of letters used until Latin superseded it
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Caesura
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Deliberate pause in poetry - helped for the purpose of memorization; indicates pause for breath
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Alliteration
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Repetition of the same initial consonant sounds - helped for the purpose of memorization
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Wyrd
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Pagan belief in the ever-present ominous sense of fate
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