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What are Kennings?
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Compound nouns, possessive or genitive
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Literary Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon Epic poetry?
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Alliteration, Caesura, Kennings, formal rigid pattern of word stresses
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What is a stock epithet?
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Adjective/phrase expressing some quality or attribute that is characteristic of a person/thing
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Father of English history?
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Bede
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Witan
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A council of elders
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Anglo-Saxon word for fate
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Wyrd
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What type of poem is Beowulf?
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Epic poem
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Characteristics of Epic poems
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Long, lots of events, main heroic character, catastrophic events, serious themes
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King of Danes?
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Hrothgar
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Who is Grendel descended from?
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Cain
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What are some of the special characters in Anglo-Saxon language?
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Thorn, Eth & Ash
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What is a grapheme?
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A character in the alphabet
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Phoneme
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A sound in language, simplest element of language
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Digraph
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A pair of letters representing a single sound
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What is a wergild?
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Man-price
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