Literature
Audience, name, familial connection, vow, preparations
Who were the traveling storytellers that orally recited poems?
Scops
Name three characteristics of a hero.
Courage, greatness, power, fighter, leader, noble heritage.
Name one role of women and give an example from the story
hostess/mead cup, noble wife, marriage for treaty (peace-weavers), influence on politics, monsters
Name one literary technique in the poem.
ALliteration, kenning, assonance, caesura, poem within poem
What is the term that described the concept of fare controlling one's destiny?
Wyrd
Name the first three steps of the hero formula.
call to adventure, assistance, departure
Name one role of fate and give an example from the story.
death, victory/defeat
Is this epic in the genre of folk or literary epic? Define the correct genre.
Folk epic. One passed down orally with no known author.
What does comitatus mean?
Code of loyalty to kings who provided gifts and protection for service
Name steps 4-6 in the hero formula.
trials, fear, crisis (near-death experience)
Name of role of God and give an example from the story.
Rewards upon men according to merit, protect the good man as long as he’s fated to live, judge the earthly activities
Is this poem a heroic or elegiac poem? Define the correct genre.
Heroic. One featuring a main hero who faces obstacles and accomplishes tasks.
What does wergild mean?
Paying a slain man's family to avoid retribution or revenge killings in your own family/tribe
What is the seventh step of the hero formula? Name one of Beowulf’s.
treasure/rewards; sword, gold
Name the role of a taunter and give an example from the story?
spur hero to heroic feat. Unferth
Describe one important relationship between characters in the story.
Wiglaf and Beowulf, Beowulf and Hrothgar, Grendel and Grendel's mother, Beowulf and Unferth
What source/spirit was thought to inspire artists or help tell a story?
Muse
Besides slaying the three monsters, names two feats Beowulf accomplished?
Breca, slaying the sea monsters
Name one role of a king and give an example from the story
treasure giver, revered reputation, leader