Victorious Vikings
He was proclaimed the God of Thunder.
Who is Thor or Thunor?
The United States government is based on this.
What is English Common Law?
The characters in Viking tales who are most often men of high social status and are brave, strong and good.
Who are epic heroes?
Beowulf's people (not Danes, not Jutes).
Who are Geats?
The hero’s journey starts and ends at this point.
What is Status Quo?
Viking raiders killed all the enemy warriors and all of these, too, without mercy?
Who are women and children?
They vacated Briton and left behind roads and public baths.
Who are the Romans?
An epic is written from this perspective or point of view.
What is third-person?
The name for the poets who sang or told the Beowulf story.
Who are bards or scops?
This Viking weapon has a long handle and a large flat blade with a curved cutting edge.
What is a broad axe?
Only the Viking leaders were allowed to wear these.
What are helmets?
They believed rocks had spirits.
Who are the Celts?
The epic hero is at natural a doing this.
What is leading or leadership?
This literary technique (used in the Beowulf story) involves a close series of identical consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
These two noun riddles, such as the sky's candle, are throughout many Old English texts.
What are kennings?
These places were good sources of treasure and were raided often.
What are religious centers?
A legendary Celtic ruler.
Who is King Arthur?
Epic poems usually detail these types of events.
What are supernatural?
This type of religious scholar wrote Beowulf in old English.
Who is a monk?
This dominated Anglo-Saxon life.
What is war?
Vikings were called this because they worshipped warlike gods.
What are pagans?
The religion of the Celts was a form of this, the Latin word for spirit.
What is animism?
The epic hero avoids these connections due to long periods of travel and possible death.
What are emotional/romantic relationships?
As seen on the ancestral chart: Beowulf’s father.
Who is Edgetho?
The Viking name for warrior, Berserken, came to be associated with this?
What is insanity?