Anglo-Saxon Quiz
How much do you know about the Anglo-Saxons?
Test your knowledge and research skills with this fiendishly difficult quiz. You can find some of the answers by visiting The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.
Hand your completed quiz in to the Reception desk at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, or post it to The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Bethesda Street, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 3DW, by March 31 2010. The papers with the most correct answers, or, in the case of a tie, the first out of a hat, will win a small prize.
1. The Anglo-Saxons loved riddles. What is the answer to this Saxon riddle?
A moth ate words. I thought that was a marvellous fate,
that the worm, a thief in the dark, should eat
a man's words - a brilliant statement
and its foundation is strong. Not a whit the wiser
was he for having fattened himself on those words.
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2. What were the names of the two Saxon saints who, according to legend, were killed by their father Wulfhere when he discovered St Chad had converted them to Christianity?
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3. Þ How is this letter pronounced, and what is it called?
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4. Which Staffordshire settlement was known to the Saxons as Wuttuceshæddre?
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5. In which year was the Sutton Hoo ship burial discovered?
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6. What is the Anglo-Saxon word for a hedgehog?
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7. What forms the centrepiece of the Forsbrook Pendant?
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8. Who is king of Denmark in the Beowulf saga?
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9. Who sent St Augustine to convert the Angles?
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10. Whereabouts in Staffordshire was the grave of a Saxon woman wearing a blue necklace found in 1881?
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