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| hawking | the use of trained birds of prey to catch game |
| druids | Celtic religious leaders |
| hypocrite | a person who pretends to have beliefs, feelings, or virtues that he or she doesn't actually have |
| squire | a young man who was assigned to serve a knight |
| berserkers | Viking men who became temporarily insane |
| Saxons | When the _______and Angles found out that the Celts in Britain were rich and defenseless, they invaded Britain. |
| Danelaw | northeast portion of England that was controlled by the Vikings |
| illuminations | artistic designs that monks drew around letters at the beginning of chapters or along the border of a page |
| favor | an object belonging to a woman, such as a scarf or glove, that a knight carried with him into a battle or tournament |
| page | A young boy training for knighthood became a ______. |
| Vikings | Norsemen who sailed to other territories to attack and loot people. |
| Angles | The name of England comes from this group of people |
| Alfred | ________ of Wessex drove the Vikings out of West England and started a revival in learning |
| convent | a place where women could devote themselves to prayer and serving God |
| heraldry | a coat of arms |
| chivalry | the general code of conduct that all knights were supposed to follow that emphasied bravery, courtesy, and honesty |
| cell | a monk's room |
| fjords | narrow inlets of water between steep slopes of mountains along the coast of Norway |
| monastery | a secluded place where monks lived |
| arms | Coats of ______ were symbols worn by lords and knights |
| Althing | the democratic government of Iceland |
| Celts | early settlers of Britain |
| Patrick | After gaining his freedom from slavery in Ireland, this British man returned to Ireland as a Christian missionary. |
| Ethelbert | king of Kent who allowed Augustine to teach Christianity in his kingdom |
| Hastings | William, the Duke of Normandy, invaded England in 1066 and defeated the English at the Battle of _________. |
| Greenland | After Eric the Red was banished from Iceland, he set out on a voyage or exploration and established the first colony in ___________. |
| Lief | _______ Ericson, Eric the Red's son, found a new territory in America that he called Vinland. |
| accolade | a light blow given to the neck or shoulders with a sword during the ceremony in which a squire became a knight |
