Battle with Grendel
Battle with Grendel's Mother
Battle with the Dragon
Terms
People, places & things
100

The reason Grendel originally attacks the Danes.

What is Hrothgar's men are singing loudly in Herot.

100

The Battle with Grendel's Mother takes place here

What is her underwater lair?

100

Beowulf's final request 

What is to go and get the treasure so he can see his reward or to build him a monument by the sea so all can remember his name

100

A long narrative poem

What is an epic?

100

The name of Hrothgar's mead hall

What is Herot?

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 giant's sword from the cave wall

200

The only soldier to come to Beowulf's aid

Who is Wiglaf?

200

repetition of beginning sounds

What is alliteration?

200

A treasure-filled cave at the bottom of a lake that is surrounded by fire

What is Grendel's Mother's lair?

300

Grendel casts a spell on this

What are the men's weapons?

300

Beowulf takes these two things with him from Grendel's Mother's Lair

What are Grendel's head and the hilt of the giant's sword? 

300

The punishment for the traitors and cowards who ran from the Dragon.

What is living the rest of their lives in disgrace (including their family)?

300

The concept that fate controls your destiny

What is "wyrd"?

300

Gave Hrunting to Beowulf

Unferth

400

The reason Beowulf keeps Grendel's arm after killing him

What is a trophy or sign of his victory?

400

The reason Grendel's Mother goes to Herot

What is to seek revenge for her son's death and take back her son's arm?

400

The place where the treasure ends up

What is Beowulf's Tower

400

two- or three-word poetic renamings of people, places, and things

What is a kenning?

400

The King of the Danes

Who is Hrothgar?

500

The characteristic Beowulf shows when he travels to Herot to fight Grendel.

What is bravery/courage?

500

Grendel's Mother kills this person at Herot.

Who is Rhothgar's best friend?

500

The cause of the Dragon's death

What is sliced in half by Beowulf's blade?

500

A mental or emotional struggle inside a person when making a hard choice

What is internal conflict?

500

Beowulf's homeland

What is Geatland?

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