Anglo+Saxon+Vocabulary+and+The+Seaferer+and+theWanderer


 * Scop- traveling storyteller**
 * Kenning- Two word poetic renaming of people, places, and things**
 * Caesuras- Rhythmic breaks in the middle of lines, where the reciter could pause for a break**
 * Assonance- The repetition of vowel sounds in unrhymed, stress syllables**
 * Alliteration- The repetition of initial consanant sounds in accented syllables**
 * Reparation- Act or process of making amends**
 * Taut- tight, not slack**
 * chaste- morally pure or modest**
 * Pyre- A combustible pile for burning a corpse as a funeral rite**
 * Synod- a council or assembley of Christian church officials**
 * Shroud- a cloth used to wrap a body for burial**
 * Infamous- Having an eceedingly bad reputation, notorious**
 * Sinew- a tendon**
 * Writhing- To twist and squirm, as in pain**
 * Prow- the forward part of a ships hull; bow**
 * Hilt- the hanle of a weapon or tool.**
 * Scabbard- A sheath, as for a dagger or sword**


 * The Seaferer is a story about a depressed individual who goes out to sea to escape a life of being religiously unfullfilled with material things. This is cosidered a story of self- exile.**
 * The Wanderer revolves around a sad warrior who has lost his master. He sees no reason to live, for his master was not only his king, bit his friend as well. His king's death leads to his homelessness. This is obviously forced exile, kids.**

QUIZLET []


 * Questions:**
 * 1. What does taut mean?**
 * 2. What does infamous mean?**
 * 3. What is a sinew?**
 * 4. What kind of exile is featured in The Wanderer?**
 * 5. What kind of exile is featured in The Seaferer?**
 * 6. What is the main character in The Wanderer upset about?**
 * 7. What is a scop?**
 * 8. Where does the main character in The Seaferer go to ecape from his problems?**
 * 9. What is a pyre?**
 * 10. What is the occupation of the main character in The Wanderer?**