Early Middle Ages Literary Terms

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Across
  1. 4. a crucifix
  2. 5. The price set upon a person’s life pad as compensation to the family or lord of the lain to free the culprit of further punishment or obligation and to prevent a blood feud. (Anglo-Saxon and Germanic law)
  3. 6. An extended narrative poem celebrating martial heroes, invoking divine inspiration, beginning in medias res, and written in a high style.
  4. 9. A compound word phrase used in Old English and Old Norse languages as a synonym for a noun
  5. 10. In manuscript culture, the copyist who reproduces a text by hand
  6. 11. A kenning that means king or lord.
  7. 13. The joys of the hall
  8. 16. The national epic of England because it is the first epic written in English
  9. 17. Christian term used to designate religions (often polytheist) that do not worship the God of Abraham
  10. 19. The mutually respectful relationship between a lord or king and his retainers or thanes.
Down
  1. 1. Fate
  2. 2. England’s first poet
  3. 3. The repetition of an initial consonant sound or cluster of sounds in consecutive or closely positioned words
  4. 7. Animal skin used as the material for handwritten books before the introduction of paper.
  5. 8. Author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People (written in Latin)
  6. 12. Animal skin used as the material for handwritten books before the introduction of paper.
  7. 13. An Anglo-Saxon court poet
  8. 14. The hall of the king, where visitors were received and the community gathered to socialize and feast
  9. 15. Teutonic tribal group living in England in post-Roman times
  10. 18. A pausing or breathing space within a line of verse