Part 1 Study Guide Puzzle

5. — Old English letter (Þ/þ) representing the "th" sound.
7. — Old English letter (Ƿ/ƿ) representing the "w" sound.
8. — The geographic setting of the Beowulf story (home of Geats and Danes).
9. Woman — The magical figure who tests the knight and later becomes his wife after teaching him a lesson.
11. English — The stage of English (12th–15th centuries) in which Chaucer wrote.
13. — Old English letter (Ð/ð) representing the voiced "th" sound.
16. — The study of ancient handwriting and scripts.
17. — A heroic epic poem set in 6th-century Scandinavia and preserved in Old English.
21. — The monk who began converting Anglo‑Saxons to Christianity in 597 CE.
22. — The theme of the Wife of Bath’s Tale: a wife’s authority and control in marriage.
25. — The communal hall where the king and thanes feasted, met, and slept.
26. — A bond between a king and his thanes based on mutual loyalty and reward.
27. narrative — A story structure that contains a larger collection of linked tales told by different characters.
28. — A religious journey taken by the Canterbury Tales’ characters to Canterbury Cathedral.
29. — Family relationships and lineage traced through male ancestors.

1. — The Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet named for its first letters.
2. Hoo — Archaeological site where a major Anglo‑Saxon ship burial was found.
3. — Monetary compensation paid to a victim’s family for murder or injury.
4. — A character from the Germanic runic alphabets (fuþorc).
6. — The young man in the Wife of Bath’s Tale whose crime leads to a death sentence and quest for redemption.
7. of Bath — A worldly, experienced pilgrim who tells a tale about sovereignty in marriage.
8. — An Anglo-Saxon oral poet who preserved history and entertained the tribe.
10. — Area of England under Viking/Danish control during the 9th–10th centuries.
12. — The introductory section of The Canterbury Tales that presents the pilgrims and their stories.
14. — A formal warrior speech declaring past deeds and promising future feats.
15. — Anglo-Saxon concept of fate or destiny (modern “weird”).
18. — Strong social bonds among members of a household or warband.
19. — A noble warrior who served a king in exchange for land and gifts.
20. — A rhetorical understatement that uses negation to affirm (e.g., “not bad”).
21. — A Germanic people who settled in Britain between 410–1066 CE.
23. narrator — The storyteller within the frame (e.g., Chaucer as narrator arranging pilgrims and their tales).
24. Chaucer — The 14th-century English poet who wrote The Canterbury Tales.