BEOWULF
EPICS
ILLIAD
ANGLO SAXON PERIOD
MISCELLANEOUS
100
The author of Beowulf.
What is anonymous or unknown?
100
Anglo Saxon poets who recited epics
What are scops?
100
The author of the Illiad as well as the Odyssey.
Who was Homer?
100
The Roman general who attempted to conquer the British Isles.
Who was Julius Caesar?
100
The continent where Beowulf took place.
What is Europe?
200
The mead hall of Beowulf.
What was Herot?
200
A gathering place of Anglo Saxons to eat, drink, and listen to epics.
What are Mead Halls?
200
The great runner and the main character of The Illiad.
Who was Achilles?
200
The Anglos and the Saxons were originally from this country.
What is Germany?
200
The Old English word for fate.
What is wyrd?
300
The king of the Danes.
Who was Hrothgar?
300
The lead characters in epic poems.
What are heroes?
300
The goddess who changed into Hector's brother to trick him and help Achilles.
Who was Pallas Athena?
300
Seafaring invaders from Denmark and Norway.
Who were the Vikings?
300
In epics scops used this repetition of the beginning consonant sounds of words.
What is alliteration?
400
Number of Geats Beowulf took with him at first to battle Grendel.
What is 14?
400
The way that most epics were remembered from generation to generation.
What is orally?
400
The language of the Anglo Saxon people.
What was Old English?
400
The monster Grendel represents this in Beowulf.
What is evil?
500
The trophy Beowulf hung from the rafters proving the death of Grendel.
What was the arm, claw and all?
500
Epic poems used Paganism and later changed to this.
What is Christianity?
500
The three groups of characters associated with The Illiad.
Who were the Greeks, the Trojans, and the Gods?
500
The last successful invasion of the island of Britain.
What was the Norman Conquest?
500
This present day country is where Beowulf came to destroy Grendel.
What is Denmark?
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