AD 449: Angles and Saxons are from Germany who invaded Great Britian

c 1300 BC: his epic was published

700 BC: wrote both the Iliad and the Odyssey

70 BC: Roman poet

c 5 AD: Roman poet who wrote Metamorphoses

c 360 AD: They replaced scrolls throughout Europe

c 650: Chinese sculpture from T’ang dynasty

600s: promotes everyday use of the Chinese language

640: where the famous library with the 300,000 papyrus scrolls were

c. 670: earliest English Christian poet who wrote hymns

ca. 700: an English epic

730: an English clergy who wrote the Ecclesiastical History of the English People

c. 759: Japanese anthology of about 4500 poems

760: monks wrote these; an illuminated manuscript of Latin gospels

c.

850: Famous cycle of Norse mythological poems

900: a series of Arabian tales

c. 975: a collection of English poetry

c. 1000: novel written by Lady Murasaki Shikibu

blond warriors called Brythons (another term of Britons)

spirit

871-899: led Anglo-Saxons against Danes

man-eating monster who lives at the bottom of a mountain lake

Golden guest hall built by Hrothgar; decorated with antlers of stags

Danish king and friend of Beowulf’s father

Geat warrior and part of Beowulf’s band; only one to assist him in his final fight

determined

extravagant

Invaders of Europe that came from Scandinavia

perfect example

a quest story on a grand scale

A lyric poet

rhythmic pause in a verse

A device employed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions or qualities, as in “ring-giver” for king and “whale-road” for ocean.

severe or stern in appearance; undecorated

Brief, violent storm

humiliating someone in one’s authority

Brave and noble

inflict severe punishment

cringing and pleading

powerful Greek warrior son of Peleus and Thetis

Greek warrior and companion of Achilles

natives of Troy

commander of Trojan armies; son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba

another son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba

Trojan king; father of Prince Hector and Prince Paris

god of poetry, music and prophecy; only son of Zeus and Leto; sides with the Trojans

goddess of wisdom

father-god

gates of Troy; Dardania is a city built near the foot of Mt.

Ida

one of Hector’s brothers

war epic

a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy

formal plea for aid

characteristic

in the midst of things

(Greek mythology) the king who lead the Greeks against Troy in the Trojan War

Goddess of marriage

a sorrowful poem or speech

Gathering place for warriors

Fate

“money for a man”, the value of a person in money, depending on social status; in Germanic society, a fine paid by a wrongdoer to the family of the person he or she had injured or killed

A guard

Tendons

very old; whitish or gray from age

A heap of combustibles for burning a corpse as a funeral rite.

sheath for sword or dagger

mysterious; magical

Comfort

(v.) moved about in a secretive or sneaky way

Misgivings about something one feels is wrong

Central idea of a work of literature

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

(n.) a false idea; something that one seems to see or to be aware that really does not exist

1027-1087: Norman king in 1066 he defeated Harold, the Anglo-Saxon king, to become the first Norman king of England

traveling composer and poet serving as paid entertainment usually

code of loyalty

annoyed

collection of hidden coins, treasures, etc.

is; can be

having characteristic of

past tense verb

made of

person connected with

love

please

light

word, speech

self

feeling, suffering, disease

fake

name

opinion

love

human

earth

a symbolic fictional narrative that conveys a meaning not explicitly set forth in the narrative.

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

Directly says or thinks about character.

Other words in a direct characterization the reader is like.

Traits not actually stated but are determined by the reader from clues the author gives