Vocab
What is is an opinion, conclusion, or educated guess formed without sufficient evidence or firm proof.
What is conjecture?
Beowulf was originally told in this language.
What is Old English?
Where Beowulf is from.
What is Geatland?
Rather than touch the water, a stage will....
What is lay down and die (be killed)?
Beowulf's last enemy.
What is a dragon?
open, wild land with peaty soil covered in heather and moss
What is a moor?
The monster terrorizing Hrothgar.
Who is Grendel?
Beowulf will fight the monster......
What is barehanded or hand to hand?
Where the monsters live.
What is a cave/den/home deep under the lake?
What is run away and hide?
very old, out-of-date, or belonging to an earlier period in history
What is archaic?
The name of the mead hall where the monster attacks.
What is Herot?
If Beowulf dies, his armor should be...
What is sent back home/to Geatland/to Higlac?
This protects Beowulf from the mother's claws.
What is his mail?
These two items fail Beowulf in his final battle.
What are his sword and shield?
commanding great respect and admiration due to an impressive age, long-standing use, wisdom, or character
What is venerable?
How the story of Hrothgar's trouble reached our hero.
What is by traveling scops?
Why men's swords can't hurt the monster.
What is because they are magicked/spelled/etc.?
Used to severe the mother's head.
What is a sword forged by giants?
What is king?
a low-lying, marshy, swampy wetland
What is a fen?
Our hero who hears the tale and comes to aid Hrothgar.
Who is Beowulf?
How Beowulf kills the monster.
What is by ripping off his arm?
What does Beowulf bring back for Hrothgar?
Beowulf wants his tomb to be high on the water and called...
What is Beowulf's Tower?