Lit. Terms
Beowulf
Anglo-Saxon Terms
Misc.
History
100
Caesura
What is a pause or break within a line of poetry
100
12 years
What is number of years Grendel attacked the town?
100
In medias res
What is epic plunges us into middle of action
100
Years of Roman occupation in Britain.
What is 55 BC to 409 AD
100
Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
What are groups that invaded Britain.
200
Allegory
Characters, Settings, and events that stand for abstract or moral concepts.
200
To take the treasure back to his kingdom and people.
What was Beowulf's last wish before death?
200
Wergild
What is the price of a man
200
Julius Caesar
Who is the Roman who was assinated?
200
Religion introduced to Japan in 552.
What is Buddhism
300
Motif
What is a word, character, object, image, metaphor, or idea that reoccurs in one or several works.
300
Who is the King
Is summoned to the town by whom?
300
Comitatus
What is Anglo-Saxon loyalty code
300
King Alfred the Great of Wessex
What is King that united the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
300
William the Conquerer
Who is leader of the Norman invasion.
400
Alliteration
What is repitition of sounds in a line of poetry.
400
Denmark
What is the country of Beowulf's riegn.
400
Bard or Scop
What are story tellers
400
the way of passing down myths and other stories.
What is poetic songs
400
Germany and Denmark
What is place that the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes originated
500
Apostrophe
What is a poet or a writer speaking to a dead or nonexistant object that as if it is there.
500
On the wall
Where is the sword Beowulf used to kill Grendel's mother?
500
Wyrd
What is "fate"
500
year that Romans withdrew from Britain.
What is 409 AD
500
Name of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes before uniting into one group.
What is Anglo-Saxons.
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