Vocabulary
Comfort
What is solace?
Legendary hero
Who is Beowulf?
Language in which Beowulf was written
Name of the great hall
What is Herot?
Healfdane's son
Who is Hrothgar?
A story told in a serious manner, with elevated language.
What is an epic?
Wexstan's son
Who is Wiglaf?
Traveling minstrels who told these long narrative poems?
Terrorized the men who sang songs of Gods creations
Who is Grendel?
The number of men that Beowulf sailed to the distant Danish shore with
What is 14?
Purify
What is purge?
Danish warrior who had questioned Beowulf's bravery before the battle with Grendel
Who is Unferth?
Told the stories of life ruled by fate
Who are Pagan Anglo-Saxons?
The number of men Grendel snatched up in Herot
What is 30?
Reason Beowulf sailed to Denmark
What is to defeat Grendel?
Disgusting
King of the Geats and Beowulf's feudal lord
Who is Higlac?
Culture that taught human beings and their choices of good or evil were at the center of creation
What is Christianity?
Compensation for wrong
What is reparation?
Beowulf uses this to convince the Danish watcher that he is friendly.
What is his family lineage and plan to defeat Grendel?
Making twisting or turning motions.
What is writhing?
Beowulf's father
Who is Edgetho?
Way we can determine the main idea or essential message of a passage
What is paraphrase?
Grendel was spawned by a pair of monsters born of this person.
Who is Cain?
Beowulf did this to catch Grendel
What is pretend to sleep?