Battles
The reason Beowulf went after Grendel.
what is Beowulf overhearing about Grendel terrorizing and attacking Hrothgar's subjects ?
The culture that used Old English language.
What is Anglo-Saxon
Beowulf's father.
Who is Edgetheow?
The original Epic was wrote my people of this religion.
What is Paganism?
The sin-stained demon.
Who is Grendel?
outcome of the battle between Beowulf and Grendel.
What is Grendel's defeat?
Anglo-Saxon word for poet.
What is "scop"?
Brecca
Who is Beowulf's best friend?
over the years, this religion was forced into the epic by those who orally told it.
What is Christianity?
The giver of rings
Who is Hrothgar?
Reasoning for Beowulf battling bare-handed.
What is a spell that makes weopons useless.
Old English word for fate.
What is "wyrd"?
Tribe who lives in Denmark.
Who are the Danes?
in the 18th century Beowulf was rewritten by...
What is a Christian poet?
The term whale road.
What is a kenning that means "sea"?
Reasoning for Grendel's mother's death.
What is an attack on the people of Herot?
A long poem from oral tradition.
What is an epic?
Ancestor of Grendel, whom killed his own brother.
Who is Cain?
Examples of how there are still traces of paganism in the epic
What is the use of monsters, fate, and immortality?
The second kenning used to describe Grendel
What is the "shephard of evil"?
Cause of Beowulf's last battle and why it was his last.
What is the Dragon who attacked Geatland and poisonous blood?
Caesura
What is a pause in a line of poetry?
A cruel and greedy ruler of the Danes before Syld Scefing.
Who is Heremond?
In general, the epic is most religiously influenced by...
What is Christianity
The kenning that means blood.
What is "battle sweat"?