Battle with Grendel
Battle with Grendel's Mother
Miscellaneous
Terms
People, places & things
100
What causes Grendel to enter Herot in the beginning
What is he was irritated with the music and loud men
100
Where the Battle with Grendel's Mother took place
What is underwater
100

What is a kenning?

2 word nickname

100
A long narrative peom
What is an epic
100
The name of Beowulf's sword
What is Hrunting
200
How Beowulf kills Grendel
What is he rips his arm off with his bare hands
200
Beowulf uses this to kill Grendel's Mother
What is the sword from the cave wall
200

Beowulf has to break chains and kills what in the past?

giants

200

repetition of beginning sounds

alliteration

200

Location of twelve years of hunting for Grendel

What is Herot

300
Grendel casts a spell on this
What is the men's weapons
300
Beowulf takes this with them from Grendel's Mother's Lair
What is Grendel's head
300

True or False.  Beowulf returns from the water with both Grendel's head and arm.

False.  He comes back with the head and the hilt of the sword

300
A rhythmic break in the middle of lines
What is caesura
300

This is stolen from the rafters

Grendel's arm

400
Why did Beowulf keep Grendel's arm after killing him
What is to keep is as a trophy
400
What was Grendel's Mothers intentions
What is to seek revenge for her son's death
400

How many men did Beowulf arrive with?

14

400
two-word poetic renamings of people, places, and things
What is a kenning
400
The King of the Danes
What is Hrothgar
500
What characteristic does Beowulf show during the Battle with Grendel
What is bravery
500
Why does Grendel's mother only kill one soldier in the beginning
What is to lure Beowulf into her lair
500

Term for battling with words, insulting friends

Flyting

500

 descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned

what is an epithet?

500

King of the Geats

What is Higlac

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