HSTAM 276

Celtic Civilizations

MIDTERM EXAMINATION STUDY GUIDE

HSTAM 276

Hallstatt                                    La Tène

P-Celtic, Q-Celtic                     druids

Severed heads                          votive deposits

Champion’s portion                  Gododdin

Medb                                       Gildas, Nennius

Boudicca                                  Otherworld

Samain                                    Arthur

Badon                                      honor, face

Cuchulainn                               Lug, Epona

Ogam                                       Uí Néill

Ulster, Leinster, Munster,          Meath, Connacht

Dyfed, Gwynedd, Powys          Emain Macha

Fifths                                       kingship of Tara

Síd                                           bards, poets, filid, “poets”

Roquepertuse, Entremont                   Vix, Hochdorf

Keltoi                                       Niall of the Nine Hostages

Ulster cycle                              Taliesin

Airgialla                                    Eoganachta

Omphalos                                 Rheged, Strathclyde, Cumbria

HSTAM 276

Celtic Civilizations

FINAL EXAMINATION STUDY GUIDE

Gerald of Wales                        Adamnán

Columba, Iona                          Brian Boru, Dál Cais

Ir. Tuath, W. tud, “tribe”                   Clontarf (1014)

Normans, Anglo-Irish, Cambro-Normans, Marcher lords

Muirchú,

Brigit, Kildare                           “horse-mead”, “horse drunk”

“Prince’s Truth”                       Feast of Tara

four-generation kindred             jurists

nativist, anti-nativist                   Senchas Már

Geoffrey of Monmouth             Vikings

High-Kingship of Ireland           Arthur

Lord Rhys                                Robert Bruce

Llywelyn ap Iorwerth                Statutes of Kilkenny (1366)

Gaelic revival                            Dublin, Pale

“Book of Invasions”                 Hywel Dda

Sovereignty goddess                 ale of sovereignty  

gessa, “taboos”                        Easter

distraint, sanctuary, protection   senchas

sheela-na-gig                             Ambrosius/Emrys

Gundestrup cauldron                Llywelyn ap Gruffudd

Filid, “poets”                           Bede

Northumbrian Renaissance        smiths, craftsmen, herdsmen

Sons of Míl                              Maxen Wledig (Magnus Maximus)

“The War of the Foreigners with the Gael”

Book of Kells, Lindisfarne Gospels, Book of Durrow

Satire, praise                             Kenneth mac Alpin

Edward I                                  law

David I                                     Declaration of Arbroath            

Cyfraith Hywel, the “Law of Hywel”

You will need acrobat reader to open the below links.  These are the maps from the assignment packet and from lecture on 4/7/05. These are huge files and it may take a while to open them.  I fyou have trouble opening them, please email Amy at absher@u.washington.edu

Bernica and Derui

Map of Britain 600 BCE

Map of Britain and Ireland

Map of Britain before Roman conquest

Map of Early Ireland