Battle with Grendel
Battle with Grendel's Mother
Battle with the Dragon
Terms
People, places & things
100

This causes Grendel to begin destroying Herot.

What is the minstral singing of the creations of God?

100
Where the Battle with Grendel's Mother took place
What is underwater
100

What Beowulf asks Wiglaf to do before he died.

What is to go and get the treasure so he can see his reward or to build him a monument by the sea so all can remember his name?

100
A long narrative peom
What is an epic
100

The name of Beowulf's sword given by Unferth

What is Hrunting

200
How Beowulf kills Grendel
What is he rips his arm off with his bare hands
200
Beowulf uses this to kill Grendel's Mother
What is the sword from the cave wall
200
Comes to Beowulf's rescue

Wiglaf

200

repetition of beginning sounds

alliteration

200
Hrothgar builds this in celebration of the Danes' victory
What is Herot
300

How Beowulf intends to fight Grendel.

What is with no weapons?

300
Beowulf takes this with them from Grendel's Mother's Lair
What is Grendel's head
300

true or false: Wiglaf thinks he and his comrades should help Beowulf fight the dragon because then they can claim the treasure.

What is False: He thinks they will help because they had already promised to repay Beowulf's kindness with their lives

300

Oral poet in Anglo-Saxon Culture

What is a scop?

300

How long Beowulf was king

What is 50 years?

400

What Beowulf intends to use Grendel's arm as.

What is a trophy?

400

Grendel's Mothers intentions for attacking Heorot

What is to seek revenge for her son's death

400

it is buried in the monument/tower they built for beowulf

What is the dragon's treasure?

400
two-word poetic renamings of people, places, and things
What is a kenning
400
The King of the Danes
What is Hrothgar
500

A characteristic or virtue Beowulf shows during the Battle with Grendel

What is bravery/courage

500

The name of Hrothgar's friend who is killed by Grendel's mother.

Who is Aeschere?

500
The name of a hill that Beowulf wants built for himself after he dies.

What is a barrow?

500

Arrangement between thanes and their lords exchanging military service for gifts

What is comitatus?

500

King of the Geats

What is Hyglac