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  1. 3. Your favorite third block class.
  2. 5. Book produced around year 700 in a monastery.
  3. 7. A collection of annals in old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.
  4. 8. The greatest Anglo-Saxon scholar. Wrote and translated about forty books ion every area of knowledge, including nature, astronomy, and poetry.
  5. 9. Pagans and worshiped many gods.
  6. 10. Letters in a set of related alphabets, which were used to write various Germanic Languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet.
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  1. 1. Earliest English poet whose name is well known. Cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonaeshalch during the abbacy of St. Hilda.
  2. 2. One of many Old English poets known by name and one whose work is known to survive today. Famous for religious compositions, and is regarded as one the Pre-imminent figures of Anglo-Saxon Christian peotry.
  3. 4. Text with such decorations as initials, borders, and miniature illustrations.
  4. 6. Highly inflicted language with a largely Germanic vocabulary, very different from now.