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This Geat hero defeats Grendel and later becomes king.
Who is Beowulf?
This great hall built by Hrothgar is attacked by Grendel.
What is Heorot?
Beowulf travels from this land to help Hrothgar.
What is Geatland?
These people came from present-day Holland and Belgium.
Who are the Saxons?
A long speech by a character bragging about achievements.
What is a boast?
This ancestor of the Wægmundings is mentioned as part of Wiglaf’s family line.
Who is Becca?
This Danish king asks Beowulf for help against Grendel.
Who is Hrothgar?
Beowulf defeats Grendel by doing this to him.
What is tearing off his arm?
These people came from Northern Germany and Denmark.
Who are the Angles?
A long narrative poem about heroic deeds.
What is an epic?
This man is Beowulf’s father and once received help from Hrothgar.
Who is Edgetheow?
This legendary Danish king is honored with a ship burial at the beginning of the epic.
Who is Scyld Scefing?
Beowulf fights Grendel’s mother in this place.
What is an underwater cave?
This group settled in Kent.
Who are the Jutes?
A literary device that uses indirect or creative descriptions (like “whale-road” for sea).
What is a kenning?
This is the name of Beowulf’s people and homeland.
Who are the Geats?
This warrior questions Beowulf’s bravery but later lends him a sword.
Who is Unferth?
Beowulf becomes king of this land.
What is the land of the Geats?
The Saxons settled in these three areas of Southern England.
What are Sussex, Essex, and Wessex?
The belief in courage, loyalty, and honor in Anglo-Saxon culture.
What is the heroic code
This tribe was enemies with the Danes and connected to a failed peace marriage.
Who are the Heathobards?
This loyal warrior stays with Beowulf during the dragon fight.
Who is Wiglaf?
Beowulf dies after fighting this creature.
What is a dragon?
These tribes eventually became known by this combined name.
Who are the Anglo-Saxons?
The main hall where the Danes gathered.
What is Heorot?