Beowulf
Hrothgar
Unferth
Monsters
Historical Context
100
Beowulf has a close connection to this animal throughout the book. 

What are bees?

100

This is Hrothgar's original hair color. 

What is red?

100

Unferth is always picking at this. 

What is his boil?

100

This is the place where the monsters of the kingdom of the Danes live. 

What is the fen? 

100

This is the language that Beowulf was originally composed in. 

What is Old English?

200

Beowulf fights the Firedrake with this many beehives. 

What is twelve?

200

This is the name of the hall that Hrothgar dreams up and builds. 

What is Heorot?

200

Unferth's drinking horn is filled with this. 

What is mead? 

200

This is Grendel's eye color. 

What is green? 

200

This is the European region where the events of Beowulf take place.

What is Scandinavia?

300

During his speech to Grendel, Beowulf claims he has this in his veins.

What is honey?

300
Hrothgar is nearly eaten by Grendel, but the light of the torch makes this shine and Grendel hesitates. 

What is the golden armor? 

300

When Unferth is nervous, he fiddles with this accessory. 

What is the silver trinket?

300

This is supposedly Grendel's father. 

Who is Cain?

300

This word best describes the genre of Beowulf. 

What is an epic?

400

This is the name of Beowulf's friend, who Unferth claims he killed. 

Who is Breca?

400
When Beowulf leaves the land of the Danes, Hrothgar wishes him a journey home accompanied by these. 

What are white birds? 

400

Unferth murders this person to prove himself to Grendel's Mother. 

Who is Aeschere?

400

Grendel's Mother uses these to try and strangle Beowulf. 

What are tentacles? 

400

The anonymous scribe who first wrote Beowulf down was probably one of these. 

What is a monk?

500

These are the virtues that the baby king speaks when Beowulf hands him the blocks. 

What are mercy, pity, and peace?

500

Hrothgar's great-grandfather may (or may not) have descended from this Norse god. 

Who is Odin?

500
Unferth uses this metaphor to explain his philosophy of good and evil in the world. 

What is the tree of evil?

500

The Firedrake is an isolated monster who protects his huge collection of treasure, also known as this. 

What is a horde? 

500

This was the European tribal group that first composed (and listened to) Beowulf. 

Who are the Anglo Saxons?