History of English Literature

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  1. 4. Words of common etymological origin that are very similar in another language
  2. 5. The first invaders of Britain
  3. 7. The collective name applied to the seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England
  4. 9. The ......... tapestry is a famous piece of embroidery that depitcs the Norman Conquest
  5. 15. The .......... tales contains the stories told by a group of 29 pilgrims
  6. 16. The runic alphabet was replaced by this
  7. 17. In Old English poems we often find ........., which serves to facilitate the remembering of the stories
  8. 19. The first epic poem written in the (Old) English language
  9. 20. A long poem narrative which tells about the great deeds of a hero
  10. 21. The .......... Age is also known as the 15th century
  11. 22. Modern Frisian and Modern English come from the ........... family of languages
  12. 26. In the battle of .......... King Harold was killed.
  13. 27. In 1362, the Statue of ........ was written in English.
  14. 28. Was named "the Great" for fighting the Danes, promoting the English language and commissioning the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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  1. 1. the part of England in which the laws of the Danes held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons
  2. 2. This person wrote the first ever history of the English-speaking people: The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
  3. 3. A narrative song poem
  4. 6. The ........ system is the construct designating the social, economic, and political conditions in Britain during the early Middle Ages
  5. 8. The first part of the Canterbury Tales is called the General .............
  6. 10. The Angles, Saxons and the ........ are three Germanic tribes that started invading Britain around 450AD
  7. 11. The name of a man who has died for God
  8. 12. Allusive, riddle-like compound words
  9. 13. This person arrived in Britain in 597AD
  10. 14. The original inhabitants of the island
  11. 17. Saint Thomas Becket was the ............ of Canterbury
  12. 18. The tribe that landed on the coast of England in 1066
  13. 23. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight belongs to this genre
  14. 24. A famous poet of the Middle English period
  15. 25. A ........ and frame story is a story in whihc a number of other stories are told