Anglo Saxon Period:
Great Britain is an island separated from the rest of Europe. Great Britain has been
invaded and settled several times. Their invaders are the following:
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The Celtic heroes and heroines:
The ________ were tall, blond warriors. The religion of the Celts was a form of an
______________, form of the Latin Word for ______________. The Celts saw spirits
everywhere- in rivers, rocks and trees. The spirits controlled everything and they
had to be constantly satisfied. Priests called _________________ spoke to the gods for
peoples. The mythology of the Celts helped influence many writers. Sir Thomas
Mallory in the 15th century wrote about a Celtic warrior named ___________________.
Celtic stories are very different from Anglo Saxon tales. Unlike ______________
dominated Anglo-Saxon stories, Celtic legends are full of strong ________________.
The Romans: the great administrators:
_________________ first invaded Great Britain in _____________, but the Britons were not
conquered until 100 years later, when ______ invaded. The Romans provided the
armies and __________________ that kept Britain from being invaded for several
hundred more years. The Romans built a network of ______________ and a great
_________________. Under Roman rule, _____________________ began to grow in Britain.
Because of trouble in Rome, the Romans left by ________________ leaving roads and
baths behind, but no central __________________. This left Britain as a country of
separate ______________, which left them susceptible to invasions.
The Anglo-Saxons Sweep Ashore:
In mid fifth century, ______________ and ______________ from Germany and _____________
from Denmark invaded Britain. The language of the Anglo-Saxons became the
dominant language in what was now called ________________, or __________________________.
The Celts eventually fled to _____________ where remains of their language and culture
can still be found. At first the Anglo-Saxons could not unify England any better than
the Celts had. The country was gods and heroes. Anglo-Saxons called the bards
________, and they were highly respected. Creating poetry was as important as
fighting or hunting. They told stories in two forms: ________________, which meant
_______________ and __________________, which meant ____________________________.
Common motifs in Anglo-Saxon literature are _____________, _______________, and that
women are typically ____________________.
The Christian Monasteries: the ink froze:
Monasteries served as centers for ______________ during this period. The monasteries
preserved the literature of the period by __________________ it down. _____________________
was at first the language of serious study, until King Alfred instituted
______________________ as history of England in its earliest days. Only once English
became a respectable written language, did the old English ____________ and
____________ preserved by the monks come to be recognized as great literature.
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