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Lagniappe
100
Angles
What is the name of the tribe from which England got its name?
100
Britain
What is the name of the land named for the Brythons?
100
Christianity
What is the name of the movement that emerged around 314 A.D.?
100
Chieftain
What is a king?
100
kenning
What is a two-word hyphenated description of a noun?
200
King Hrothgar
What is the name of the King whose land Grendel has ravaged?
200
heptarchy
What is the name for seven kingdoms?
200
Pagan funeral
What is the event that is characterized by sending a person off to his/her wyrd?
200
geburs
What is the lower middle class?
200
peace-weaver
What is a kenning for a woman's role in society?
300
Wiglaf
What is the name of Beowulf's faithful warrior?
300
scop
What is the name of the person who cites riddles, sings songs, and remembers the tribe's history?
300
Battle with Grendel
What is the event that resulted in the loss of a monster's arm?
300
antagonist
What is the force that goes against the protagonist?
300
fyrd
What is the Anglo-Saxon army?
400
Unferth
What is the name of the person who was jealous of Beowulf?
400
Sweden
What is the name for the land of the Geats?
400
Christian burial
What is being buried undergroud?
400
theows
What is the lower class called?
400
aethling
What is the King's son?
500
Grendel's Mom
What is the name of the character who avenged her son's death?
500
Herot
What is the name of King Hrothgar's Mead Hall?
500
tragic flaw
What is something that leads to a character's downfall?
500
thane
What is an Anglo-Saxon warrior?
500
wyrd
What is a pagan person's destiny or fate?