Battle with Grendel
What causes Grendel to enter Herot in the beginning?
What is: He was irritated with the music and loud men?
Where does the battle with Grendel's mother take place?
What is: In an underwater cave under a bog.
Who comes to Beowulf's rescue?
Who is: Wiglaf?
Two-word poetic renamings of people, places, and things.
What is: A kenning?
Where was Beowulf SET?
What is: Scandinavia?
How does Beowulf kill Grendel?
What is: He rips his arm off with his bare hands?
Beowulf uses this to kill Grendel's Mother
What is: The sword from the cave wall?
True or false: Wiglaf thinks he and his comrades should help Beowulf fight the dragon because then they can claim the treasure.
What is False: He thinks they will help because they had already promised to repay Beowulf's kindness with their lives.
What is a caesura?
What is: A rhythmic break in the middle of lines for songs, riddles, etc.
Where was Beowulf WRITTEN?
What does Beowulf keep as a trophy after Grendel's death?
What is: His arm?
Beowulf takes this with him from Grendel's mother's lair and it takes four men to carry it to Hrothgar's table.
What is: Grendel's head?
How does Beowulf kill the dragon?
What is: He cuts him in half?
Repetition of beginning sounds. (Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers).
What is: Alliteration?
Hrothgar builds this in celebration of the Danes' victory
What is: Herot?
Who is Grendel considered a descendant of in the story?
What is: A descendant of Cain?
What were Grendel's mother's intentions?
What is: to seek revenge for her son's death?
What Tolkien character/s and story are inspired by the battle with the dragon?
What are: Smaug and Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit?
The name for a bard or poet/minstrel in Anglo-Saxon times.
What is a schop or scop?
The King of the Danes
Who is Hrothgar?
Who mocks Beowulf before the battle with Grendel and why?
Who is Unferth because he thinks he's lying about the swimming contest results and is a big boaster?
Why does Grendel's mother only kill one soldier in the beginning?
What is: To lure Beowulf into her lair?
What happens to Beowulf in the end of the story?
What is: He dies and is buried under a burial mound?
"Hwaet! We Gardena in geardagum..." Is what?
What are: The first few lines of Beowulf in Old English?
Who are Beowulf's people?
Who are: The Geats?