Unit 3 World Literature Test – Flashcards
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Charlemagne
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crowned emperor and augustus by Pope Leo III
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palace Aachen
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charlemagne's palace
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castle of local lord
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center of medieval community
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lay
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short narrative in verse about heroic themes
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feudalism
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social system, military service exchanged for protection and use of land
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vassal
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received, land from lord, high middle ages
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fief
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land given or fued
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Rebassaince
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rebirth
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Song of Roland
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French epic poem, based on actual baltee on Aug. 15 778
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chanson de geste
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song of noble deeds
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paladins
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12 peers, greatest vassals to Charlemagne
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"men feared him because they knew he was just"
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Louis IX, consolidated power to French throne, canonized by church
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Divine Comedy
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vision of interconnections between God and Creation
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laisse
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10 syllable lines with same vowel ending, Song of Roland
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Turoldus
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maybe author of Song of Roland
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history of Song of Roland
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Moslem Arabs and Berbers crossed strait into Spain and crushed Christian Visigothkics and established Islamic state, got in quarrel and invited Charlemagne to invade and he sieged Saragossa and on retreat he was attacked by Basques and forced him into Ronscavalles
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Battle of Hastings
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Roland rode at head
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joungels
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wandering minstrels sang of Roland
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Guenes/ Ganelon
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Roland's stepfather, betrays him
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age 38 but described as 200
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Charlemagne/ Carlon
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pagan vs Christians for side of world but actually
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Moslem v French
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themes of Song of Roland
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heroism, fidelity to friend and country, dedication to duty means sacrifice, died warriors death but unnecessary, chivalric bravery
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Oliver
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Charlemagne paladin
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Mahound
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trinity of devils Moslems worship, song of roland
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Ballgant
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termagant leader
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Jurfaret
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son of Marsillion
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Adelroth
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nephew of Marsillion
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Blancandrin
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advisor to Marsil
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sections of Song of Roland
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4
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Aix
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Charlemagne capital
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Saracens
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make deal with French that they will convert if french withdraw
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Lay of Werewolf by Marie de France history
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book if effort to save and transmit aspect of French culture, lays were heard sung by minstrels celtic people
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Marie de France
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earliest known woman poet in France, Ysopet "Little Aesop" to Count William, possibly abbess of Shafstbury and daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet and half sister to King Henry II
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Biscalvaret/ Garwall
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werewolf
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baron in Brittany
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werewolf
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Werewolf themes
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wife is exiled and loses nose, ultimately judgement, venery, raiment, betrayed by kiss, morality: wife cheats on him/ adultery
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3 days a week
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how long werewolf is gone
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3 Fables themes
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proper behavior, point of view is condescending, hypocritical, humility, prize the things we despise, do not complain about what you have, do not aim too high, MODERATION
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Allthing
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Icelandic meeting national
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skalds
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Iceland's court poets
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Elder Edda
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30 lays composed in books, assume reader knows the story, Lay of Thrym
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Thor
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god of thunder, norse
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Mjolinir
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hammer of Thor
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Asgard
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home of thor
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sagas
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things which have been said, Lay of Thrym
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Loki
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changes shape, loyalty uncertain, helping Thor
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Freya
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Thor and Loki must protect her from marrying Thrym the giant
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mead
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drink in Lay of Thrym
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Lay of Thrym themes
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preservation of honor, right is might restored
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the Hurier
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Thor, red hair
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feathered cloak
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Freya's Loki asks to borrow
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Gianthome
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home of Thrym
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Brising
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necklace of Freya made by dwarves
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Heimdal
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watchman of Asgard
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asks for rings
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Thrym's sister, so killed
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8 miles deep
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the hammer was hidden
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La Fay's son
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Loki
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keys
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Freya/ Thor must wear these while pretending to be Freya
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Njord's daughter
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Freya or Nortan
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Thorstein the StaffStruck themes
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male dominated society, strength and do not back down, reverse the right = might and take a more Christian attitude, culture changing
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Sunnudale
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home in Staff Struck
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Thorarin
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father of Thorsein
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Thorsein
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bred horses, son, gets in horse fight and struck with staff
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Bjarni Hof
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local chief
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brothers
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Thornall & Thorvald, brothers of chief and gossips
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Thord
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servant, in horse fight, mean
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bull killed him
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Thorstein said bull killed Thord
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Rannveig
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local chief's wife
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died on journey to Rome
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local chief, buried at Sutni
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Dante Algheri
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from Florence, fought in Campaldino, orphan, married Gemma Donnati, elected as prior, embassy to Pope Boniface VII, exiled from country
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Jan 27, 1302
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Dante exiled
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1321
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Dante dies
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1290
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Beatrice dies
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La Vita Nuova
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New Life, celebrates Dante's love for another woman named Beatrice who he met at age 9 and 18
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Italian Vernacular
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what the Divine Commedy is written in
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Divine Commedy
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tale of journey to land of dead, Commedia, man who has been trapped must follow the path to get out in life when the crisis of evil blocks all hope
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3 sections
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Hell, Purgatory, Paradise
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100 cantos
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Divine Comedy, 33 cantos/ section
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terza rima
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fist and third rhyme, Dante
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three beasts
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Leopard of Lust, Lion of Pride, SheWolf of Avarice
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Virgil
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shows Dante way through hell
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guide through heaven
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Beatrice, worthier spirit
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Archeron
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river all damned must cross
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Charon
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boatman takes Dante across
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fortunes wheel
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in hell, Dante
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Peter's gate
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heaven
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Dido
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killed herself for love, in hell
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Cleopatra
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in hell
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Helen
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in hell
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Achilles
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in hell
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Tristan
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in hell
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Grizzly, Hellken, Oeddog, Cramper
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6th circle guides
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Blacktalons
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devils in 5th dith
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Malacoda
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evil tail in hell
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5 hours
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in hell, time Jesus died on cross
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Cocytus
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9th circle
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Antaeus
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lifted Dante into 9th circle
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ice
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9th circle
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Antenora
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treason to country
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Dis
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Satan
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3 heads
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Satan
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Judecca
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lowest division of hell, named after Judas
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under Jerusalem
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Hell is here
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"died from every hope"
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cross line and can not go back in Hell
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35 yrs
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midway through human life, visiting hell
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little hill
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Purgatory
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Mantua Lombardy
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Virgil born here under Julius Caesar
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pagan
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Virgil, why he can not enter heaven
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"abandon all hope ye who enter"
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on way into Hell
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Great Denial
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Celestine V
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King of Time
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God
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lust in hell
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whirling winds because uncontrollable
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Semiramis
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founder of Babylon, empress of many toungues
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Magebolge
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8th circle "Evil Ditches"
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witch
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Morgan La Fay
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Gawain loves her
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Morgan La Fay
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Arthurian Legend
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Sir Gawain
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Geoffrey of Monmouth
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wrote chronicle of English kinds describing Arthur
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Wave
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turned Arthur into Roman de Brut poem
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theme of Sir Gawain
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humility, but we are all human and have faults, fallibility of human beings
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Camelot
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home of Arthur
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Christmas
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why everyone is together at Camelot
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Michlimas
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September 29
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Gringolet
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horse of Gawain
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St. Julian
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patron of hospitality in Sir Gawain
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stayed for St. Johns day
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Dec. 27, Gawain
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Logres
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Arthur's kingdom
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Beralak de Haut- Desert
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green knight
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Merlin
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sorcerer, Morgan knows his ways
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hoping to daunt Guinevere (Arthur's wife)
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Morgan La Fay does not like her
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half sister of Arthur
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Morgan La Fay
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baldric
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what Gawain must wear to remember cowardice
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Olifant
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horn of Roland
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Durendale
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sword of Roland
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"mountjoy"
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war cry of Charlemagne
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Orgier the Dane
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in charge of vanguard Song of Roland
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10 strikes
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Roland makes 10 strikes with grey rock
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beats his breast
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Roland does this ritual sign of resignation to lord and dies
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Roncevaux
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valley of thorns that Charles rides into and sees all the dead
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Paynims
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people being pursued by Charlemagne
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Vale of Tenebrosa
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where the French overtake the Paynims
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River Ebro
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where Charlemagne's pushes his enemy
