Battle with Grendel
Beowulf
Anglo Saxon History
Terms
Potpourri
100

What causes Grendel to enter Herot in the beginning

What is envy?

100

The amount of men that came over with Beowulf

What is 14?

100

The reason Grendel is a monster

What is he is descendant of Cain?

100
A long narrative peom
What is an epic
100
The way Beowulf will fight Grendel

What is with his bare-hands?

200
How Beowulf kills Grendel
What is he rips his arm off with his bare hands
200

The sentinel that came and greeted Beowulf

Who is Wulfgar?

200

What country is former Geatland known as now

What is Sweden?

200

People who sang the stories

What is scops?

200

The person who transcribed Beowulf?

Who is anonymous?

300
Grendel casts a spell on this
What is the men's weapons
300

 The land that Beowulf came from

What is the Geatland?

300

The two religions of the Anglo Saxon culture

What is Christianity and Paganism

300
A rhythmic break in the middle of lines
What is caesura
300

Another name for brotherhood

What is fraternity?


400
Why did Beowulf keep Grendel's arm after killing him
What is to keep is as a trophy
400

The reason that Beowulf says he came to Denmark

What is to repay a debt for his father Edgetho?

400

When the Anglo Saxons began to colonize after the Roman Empire

What is 449 CE?

400
two-word poetic renamings of people, places, and things
What is a kenning
400

The rules that the Anglo Saxons believed in?

What is code of honor?

500

The author says this will be the last meal Grendel will ever eat is an example of

What is foreshadowing?

500

The time Beowulf and Brecca were swimming before he came upon monsters

What is 5 days?

500

The conquest that ended the Anglo Saxon civilization

What is 1066- The Norman Conquest?

500

The tradition of paying money for a death of a thane?

What is Wergild?

500

Another name for fate

What is wyrd?

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