Old English

All 6 sets

Fifty questions in each set, the easier ones first. Work through them in order, or jump about. The questions for this age are being written, so the sets open one by one.

1

Set 1 · Across the whole age 50 questions at each level · the age, its poems, manuscripts, prose and terms

EasyMedium

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2

Set 2 · Poetry and the verse line 50 questions at each level · Beowulf, the elegies, Cædmon, Cynewulf, the riddles

EasyMedium

Coming soon

3

Set 3 · Prose and its writers 50 questions at each level · Alfred, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Ælfric, Wulfstan, the law codes

EasyMedium

Coming soon

4

Set 4 · Manuscripts and survival 50 questions · the four codices, the Ruthwell Cross, Sutton Hoo, the 1731 fire

MediumHard

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5

Set 5 · Terms, dates and sources 50 questions · kenning, caesura, comitatus, wergild, futhorc, Danelaw, Danegeld

Medium

Coming soon

6

Set 6 · Criticism and scholarship 50 questions · Ker, Chambers, Klaeber, the 1936 lecture, Whitelock, Magoun, Heaney

HardUGC NET level

Coming soon

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