Macbeth
"Hail to thee, thane of Glamis. Hail to thee, Thane of ..." what place"
Cawdor
To separate or isolate
sequester
Beowulf comes to the aid of the Danes, to rid this mead hall from the ravishes of Grendel.
Heart
This is the name given to Satan's palace - his perversion of Heaven.
Pandemonium
Gawain does this directly after each instance he is tempted by Lady Bertilak.
attend mass
This is the name of the queen of the witches.
Hecate
greedy desire
cupidity
Beowulf boasts that he won a swimming match against this person, all the while fighting off sea monsters and facing deadly currents.
Breca
This is the name of the angel who rides on a sunbeam into the Garden of Eden.
Uriel
Gawain must wait how long before meeting the Green Knight (after his first meeting with him).
One year, and one day.
This is the name of the man "not born of woman."
Macduff
to deceive by imitation
dissemble
This is the Scandinavian word for an epithet: for example, "swan road," "bee foe," kin slayer."
kenning
This is the name of the demon whose advice Satan heeds in the demon counsel.
Beelzebub
Lord Bertilak and his men hunt this animal on the third day of their hunt.
Fox
This is the name of the young son of Banquo who escaped murder and eventually became the heir to King James I of England, according to lore.
Fleance
A clever and often grand deception, orchestrated to deceive on many levels, through craft
artifact
Hnaef is the brother of this woman from the Finn Digression in Beowulf.
Hildebergh
Satan assumes the shape of this creature in order to spy on Adam and Eve from the Tree of Life.
cormorant
The Green Knight accuses Gawain of valuing this thing too highly.
His life
This character speaks this line: "Now God help thee, poor monkey! But how wilt thou do for a father?"
Lady Macduff
Scandinavian word for the concept of "it is."
word
This is the name if the sword with with Beowulf slays Grendel's mother.
Hrunting
In his first invocation, Milton declares that he intends to soar above this mount.
Ionian
This woman convinced Lord Bertilak to take the shape of the Green Knight and visit Arthur's Court.
Morgana La Fay