Battle with Grendel
The reason Grendel enters Herot in the beginning.
What is he was irritated with the music and loud men?
Where the Battle with Grendel's Mother took place
What is underwater?
Beowulf asks Wiglaf to do this before he died
What is to go and get the treasure so he can see his reward or to build him a monument by the sea so all can remember his name?
A long narrative peom
What is an epic?
The name of Beowulf's sword
What is Hrunting?
How Beowulf kills Grendel
What is he rips his arm off with his bare hands?
Beowulf uses this to kill Grendel's Mother
What is the magic sword from the cave wall?
Comes to Beowulf's rescue
Who is Wiglaf?
repetition of beginning sounds
What is alliteration?
Hrothgar builds this in celebration of the Danes' victory
What is Herot?
Grendel casts a spell on this
What are the men's weapons?
Beowulf takes this trophy from Grendel's Mother's Lair
What is Grendel's head?
The reason Wiglaf comes to rescue Beowulf.
What is family relations/bravery?
A rhythmic break in the middle of lines
What is a caesura?
Gave Hrunting to Beowulf
Unferth?
The reason Beowulf keeps Grendel's arm after killing him
What is to keep is as a trophy?
Grendel's Mothers motivation
What is to seek revenge for her son's death?
The final fate of the dragon's treasure.
What is it is buried in the monument/tower they built for Beowulf?
two-word poetic renamings of people, places, and things
What is a kenning?
The King of the Danes
What is Hrothgar?
A characteristic Beowulf shows during the Battle with Grendel
What is bravery?
The reason Grendel's mother only kill one soldier in the beginning
What is to lure Beowulf into her lair?
Beowulf kills the dragon by this method.
What is he cuts him in half?
A descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned
what is an epithet?
King of the Geats
What is Higlac?