Battle with Grendel
This causes Grendel to enter Herot in the beginning
What is he was irritated with the music and loud men?
This is where the Battle with Grendel's Mother took place.
What is her underwater lair?
Beowulf asked Wiglaf to do this before he died.
What is to go and get the treasure the dragon was hording?
What is to build him a monument by the sea so all can remember his name?
This is how Beowulf kills Grendel
What is he rips his arm off with his bare hands?
Beowulf uses this to kill Grendel's Mother.
What is the giant's sword from the cave wall?
This person comes to Beowulf's aid in battle.
Who is Wiglaf?
repetition of beginning sounds
alliteration
Hrothgar builds this in celebration of all his warriors' past victories.
What is Herot?
Grendel casts a spell on this.
What is the men's weapons?
Beowulf takes this with him from Grendel's Mother's lair.
What is Grendel's head?
This fails Beowulf during his fight with the dragon.
What are his sword and shield?
Anglo-Saxon values that are emphasized by the play. (At least one)
What are ancestry and religion?
The King of the Danes.
Who is Hrothgar?
Beowulf keeps Grendel's arm after killing him for this reason.
What is to keep is as a trophy?
This is why Grendel's mother attacked Herot.
What is to seek revenge for her son's death?
This is what happens to the dragon's treasure.
What is it is buried in the monument/tower they built for Beowulf?
two-word poetic renamings of people, places, and things.
What is a kenning?
This is where "Geatland" is in modern times.
Where is Sweden?
The epic hero characteristic(s) does Beowulf show during the Battle with Grendel.
What are bravery, superhuman strength?
This is why Grendel's mother only kills one soldier in the beginning and takes his body back to her lair.
What is she is trying to lure Beowulf down to her underwater home?
This is what is different about Beowulf's speech before fighting the dragon.
What is he seems resigned to his death?
descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned
what is an epithet?
Who are Higlac, Beowulf, and Wiglaf?