MEL Quiz 4: Aelfric, Wulfstan, Ruin, Wanderer

Answer the questions below and then click "submit" to send your answers. Identify the following excerpts. Your choices are “The Ruin,” “The Wanderer,” Wulfstan’s “Sermo Lupi ad Anglos” and Aelfric’s: “Preface to his First Series of Catholic Homilies,” “Homily on the Nativity of the Innocents,” “Preface to his Lives of Saints,” “Passion of St. Edmund.” You must spell them correctly as they appear hear but without the quotations marks.

  1. Beloved men, know what the truth is: this world is in haste, and it approaches the end, and therefore it is ever worse and worse within the world. And so it shall necessarily become very much worse because of the people’s sins before the arrival of the Antichrist; and then it will be especially dreadful and terrible throughout the world. You must also understand well that the devil has now led this people astray for many years, and that there has been little loyalty among men, though they might speak well, and too many injustices have prevailed in the land.

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  2. Then it came into my mind, I believe through the grace of God, that I should translate this book from the language of Latin into English speech, not through the confidence of great learning, but because I saw and heard much heresy in many English books, which unlearned people through their simplicity esteemed as great wisdom. And it grieved me that they did not know nor did they have teaching of the gospels in their writing, except via those men alone who understood Latin, and except for those books which King Alfred wisely translated from Latin into English, which we still have.

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  3. You know, dear man, that we translated in the two previous books the passions and lives of the saints that the English people honoured with feast days. Now it occurred to us that in this book we should write of the sufferings and lives of those saints whom monks honour among themselves in their services.

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  4. Then they all went together into the wood, through bushes and brambles, seeking where, if anywhere, they might find that head. It was also a great miracle that a wolf had been sent through God’s guidance to protect that head day and night from the other wild animals. Then they went looking and continually calling, as is customary with those who often go into the woods, ‘Where are you now, friend?’ and the head answered them, ‘Here! Here! Here!’ and so frequently called out, answering them all as often as any of them shouted, so that they all came to it because of the shouting.

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  5. They are called blossoms of martyrs, because they were just like blossoms springing up in the midst of the chill of unbelief, withered as it were by a certain frost of persecution. Blessed are the wombs that bore them, and the breasts that likewise suckled them. Truly, the mothers suffered from their children’s martyrdom; that sword which pierced the children’s limbs entered the hearts of the mothers; and it is necessary that they will be partakers of the eternal reward since they were companions in the suffering.

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  6. The wise warrior is able to perceive how ghostly it will be when all this world’s wealth stands waste, just as now in various places throughout this middle-earth covered with frost, the buildings snow-swept. The wine-halls topple. The rulers lie deprived of joys; mature men all perished proud by the wall.

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  7. and storms beat the stone-heaps, hailstorms falling binds the earth, winter’s chaos, then the darkness comes night-shadows spread gloom, sending from the north firece hailstorms to the terror of men. All is hardship in the earthly kingdom; the operation of fate changes the world under the heavens. Here, wealth is transitory; here a friend is transitory; here a man is transitory; here a kinsman is transitory.

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  8. Wondrous is this stone wall, smashed by fate. The building have crumbled, the work of giants decays. Roofs have collapsed, the towers in ruin, the frosted gate is unbarred, hoar-frost on mortar, the storm-protection mutilated, cut down, declined, undermined by age. The earth’s grip holds the powerful makers, decayed, passed away, the hard grasp of the earth, until a hundred generations of the nation of men have passed away.

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  9. Writings about the lives of holy men and women is known generally by which of the big words below:

    10. Your answer:
    typology
    hagiography
    exegesis
    homily

  10. The study of the lives of holy men and women as examples of Christ occuring within “Salvation History” is known by which of the big words below:

    11. Your answer:
    homily
    typology
    exegesis
    hagiography

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