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Anglo-Saxon Web-Quest
Answer the following questions using the websites that are provided. Be sure to go through the entire site, both the menu on the left and the one in the upper right. These questions are to be answered and turned in by the end of class on 1-24-14. This assignment will count as a quiz grade.
Part I
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/beowulf/
1. What exactly is Beowulf?
2. What language was it composed in?
3. When was it composed and what type of poem is it?
4. What is the story about?
5. Where do the events in the story take place geographically?
6. Briefly explain the story behind the manuscript of the poem.
7. Why is Beowulf important as a work of literature?
8. What is a scop?
9. What can be problematic about translating a poem like Beowulf?
10. Who wrote Beowulf?
Part II
http://beowulfresources.com/
11.What are some problems that occurred with the manuscript of the poem as a result of the fire?
12. Where is the manuscript housed today?
Part III
View a page from an old manuscript of Beowulf. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/englit/beowulf/large17439.html
13. Describe the page. What does it look like/remind you of?
Part IV
Investigate the following sites and answer the questions below.
a. http://www.suttonhoo.org/
b. http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sutton-hoo/
c. http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs4a/sutton.htm
d. http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ (you will need to use the SEARCH feature on the website and
then go through likely articles)
14. Who or what is Sutton Hoo?
15. Where is it located?
16. Why does it exist—what purpose does it serve and what does it tell us about Anglo-Saxon culture?
17. What are some of the items found there?
18. Who was buried there?
19. Go to “RELATED HIGHLIGHT OBJECTS” on the Sutton Hoo page at the British Museum site to
get to the list of objects found at Sutton Hoo. Which object do you find the most interesting & why?
Explain.
Part V
Go to the following website to learn more about homes and halls:
http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/saxons/houses.htm
20. What happened to many of the towns set up by the Romans?
21. What materials were homes constructed from?
22. Describe how the houses were set up.
23. Who lived in the Hall (mead hall)?
24. Describe the set-up and atmosphere of a mead hall.
Part VI
Go to the websites listed below to answer the corresponding questions:
http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/saxons/food.htm
25. What types of food did Anglo-Saxons grow?
26. What did they drink instead of water? Why?
27. Why were many Anglo-Saxons vegetarians?
28. What was the only type of animal used just for its meat?
Go to:
http://www.marga.org/food/int/anglosaxon/
29. Scroll to the bottom and click on the three recipes. Of these three, which would you most prefer to
eat? Why?
30. What are three ingredients in the recipe above?
A.
B.
C.
Part VII
Discover how the Anglo-Saxons lived in their daily lives. Go to:
http://www.wikitree.com/articles/year-1000/
31. If you were to go back in time to the year 1000 and meet an Anglo-Saxon, what is the first thing you
would notice?
32. What happened to people after the year 1000 and before today that made them smaller?
33. At what age was a boy considered old enough to swear an oath to the king?
34. When did most girls marry?
35. When did most adults die?
36. What disease found in skeletal remains tells us these people worked hard?
Go to
http://www.octavia.net/anglosaxon/Morgengyfu.htm
37. What was morgengifu, and when was it given?
38. If a woman wished to divorce her husband, how much money and property was she entitled to?
Part VIII
Scroll to the top of the page:
http://www.octavia.net/9thclife/Clothing.htm
39. What material was used for most clothing?
40. Did women wear underwear other than a slip (shift)?
41. What did they wear over their shift?
42. What were some colors of clothing?
43. What did men wear?
Part IX
Go to
http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/nordic/index.htm
44. Click on one of the gods listed in the left column. Write a sentence about that god:
45. Go back to the previous page. Click on one of the stories from the right column. What is the story
about?
Go to
http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/roman/daysweek.htm
46. We get the names of the days of the week from Saxon gods. Fill in the blanks below:
Monday= _____________’ s day (god of _____________________________)
Tuesday= _____________’ s day (god of _____________________________)
Wednesday=_____________’ s day (god of _____________________________)
Thursday=_____________’ s day (god of _____________________________)
Friday=_____________’ s day (goddess of _____________________________)
Sunday=_____________’ s day (god of _____________________________)
Go to:
http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/saxons/religion.htm
Scroll down to “From Pagan to Christianity”
47. About how long ago were the pagans converted?
48. What is the name of the man who converted the king in Kent?
49. Where did this man build a church?
Part I
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/beowulf/
1. What exactly is Beowulf?
2. What language was it composed in?
3. When was it composed and what type of poem is it?
4. What is the story about?
5. Where do the events in the story take place geographically?
6. Briefly explain the story behind the manuscript of the poem.
7. Why is Beowulf important as a work of literature?
8. What is a scop?
9. What can be problematic about translating a poem like Beowulf?
10. Who wrote Beowulf?
Part II
http://beowulfresources.com/
11.What are some problems that occurred with the manuscript of the poem as a result of the fire?
12. Where is the manuscript housed today?
Part III
View a page from an old manuscript of Beowulf. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/englit/beowulf/large17439.html
13. Describe the page. What does it look like/remind you of?
Part IV
Investigate the following sites and answer the questions below.
a. http://www.suttonhoo.org/
b. http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sutton-hoo/
c. http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs4a/sutton.htm
d. http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ (you will need to use the SEARCH feature on the website and
then go through likely articles)
14. Who or what is Sutton Hoo?
15. Where is it located?
16. Why does it exist—what purpose does it serve and what does it tell us about Anglo-Saxon culture?
17. What are some of the items found there?
18. Who was buried there?
19. Go to “RELATED HIGHLIGHT OBJECTS” on the Sutton Hoo page at the British Museum site to
get to the list of objects found at Sutton Hoo. Which object do you find the most interesting & why?
Explain.
Part V
Go to the following website to learn more about homes and halls:
http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/saxons/houses.htm
20. What happened to many of the towns set up by the Romans?
21. What materials were homes constructed from?
22. Describe how the houses were set up.
23. Who lived in the Hall (mead hall)?
24. Describe the set-up and atmosphere of a mead hall.
Part VI
Go to the websites listed below to answer the corresponding questions:
http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/saxons/food.htm
25. What types of food did Anglo-Saxons grow?
26. What did they drink instead of water? Why?
27. Why were many Anglo-Saxons vegetarians?
28. What was the only type of animal used just for its meat?
Go to:
http://www.marga.org/food/int/anglosaxon/
29. Scroll to the bottom and click on the three recipes. Of these three, which would you most prefer to
eat? Why?
30. What are three ingredients in the recipe above?
A.
B.
C.
Part VII
Discover how the Anglo-Saxons lived in their daily lives. Go to:
http://www.wikitree.com/articles/year-1000/
31. If you were to go back in time to the year 1000 and meet an Anglo-Saxon, what is the first thing you
would notice?
32. What happened to people after the year 1000 and before today that made them smaller?
33. At what age was a boy considered old enough to swear an oath to the king?
34. When did most girls marry?
35. When did most adults die?
36. What disease found in skeletal remains tells us these people worked hard?
Go to
http://www.octavia.net/anglosaxon/Morgengyfu.htm
37. What was morgengifu, and when was it given?
38. If a woman wished to divorce her husband, how much money and property was she entitled to?
Part VIII
Scroll to the top of the page:
http://www.octavia.net/9thclife/Clothing.htm
39. What material was used for most clothing?
40. Did women wear underwear other than a slip (shift)?
41. What did they wear over their shift?
42. What were some colors of clothing?
43. What did men wear?
Part IX
Go to
http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/nordic/index.htm
44. Click on one of the gods listed in the left column. Write a sentence about that god:
45. Go back to the previous page. Click on one of the stories from the right column. What is the story
about?
Go to
http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/roman/daysweek.htm
46. We get the names of the days of the week from Saxon gods. Fill in the blanks below:
Monday= _____________’ s day (god of _____________________________)
Tuesday= _____________’ s day (god of _____________________________)
Wednesday=_____________’ s day (god of _____________________________)
Thursday=_____________’ s day (god of _____________________________)
Friday=_____________’ s day (goddess of _____________________________)
Sunday=_____________’ s day (god of _____________________________)
Go to:
http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/saxons/religion.htm
Scroll down to “From Pagan to Christianity”
47. About how long ago were the pagans converted?
48. What is the name of the man who converted the king in Kent?
49. Where did this man build a church?