Characters
Anglo-Saxons
Places
Plot
Misc
100
King of the Danes
Who is King Hrothgar?
100
He wrote Beowulf
Who is unknown?
100
Beowulf is from this land
What is the land of the Geats?
100
This causes Grendel to attack the mead-hall
What is listening to the Danes singing and having fun?
100
"ring-bearer" is an example of this literary device.
What is a kenning?
200
King of the Geats
Who is King Hyglec?
200
The main religion of the people who wrote down the story of Beowulf
What is Christianity?
200
The country of the Danes
What is Denmark?
200
This is how Beowulf and his men get to Denmark
What is by ship?
200
Grendel dies in this way
What is his arm is ripped off and he bleeds to death?
300
He tells a half true story about Beowulf to embarrass him in the mead-hall
Who is Unferth?
300
The language of the Anglo-Saxons (the language Beowulf is written in)
What is Old English?
300
The name of Hrothgar's famous mead-hall
What is Heorot?
300
This is what Beowulf uses to fight Grendel
What are his bare hands?
300
The definition of a torque
What is a necklace?
400
Beowulf's father
Who is Edgtheow?
400
The time period of the Anglo-Saxons
What is 449-1066 AD?
400
Grendel's mother lives here
What is a swamp/fen/moor?
400
This is why Beowulf does not use a weapon to fight Grendel
What is he wants to fight fair?
400
"the storied leader, sat stricken and helpless" is an example of this literary device
What is alliteration?
500
He beat Beowulf in a swimming match
Who is Breca?
500
This invasion ended the reign of the Anglo-Saxons
What is the Norman Conquest?
500
Grendel terrorizes the mead-hall for this many years
What is 12 years?
500
The only character Grendel cannot defeat
Who is Hrothgar?
500
This many men came with Beowulf to Denmark
What is 14?
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