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

The reason Grendel enters Herot in the beginning.

What is he was irritated with the music and loud men?

100

Where the Battle with Grendel's Mother took place

What is underwater?

100

Beowulf asks Wiglaf to do this 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

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 magic sword from the cave wall?

200

Comes to Beowulf's rescue

Who is Wiglaf?

200

repetition of beginning sounds

What is alliteration?

200

Hrothgar builds this in celebration of the Danes' victory

What is Herot?

300

Grendel casts a spell on this

What are the men's weapons?

300

Beowulf takes this trophy from Grendel's Mother's Lair

What is Grendel's head?

300

The reason Wiglaf comes to rescue Beowulf.

What is family relations/bravery?

300

A rhythmic break in the middle of lines

What is a caesura?

300

Gave Hrunting to Beowulf

Unferth?

400

The reason Beowulf keeps Grendel's arm after killing him

What is to keep is as a trophy?

400

Grendel's Mothers motivation

What is to seek revenge for her son's death?

400

 The final fate of the dragon's treasure.

What is it is buried in the monument/tower they built for Beowulf?

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 Beowulf shows during the Battle with Grendel

What is bravery?

500

The reason Grendel's mother only kill one soldier in the beginning

What is to lure Beowulf into her lair?

500

Beowulf kills the dragon by this method.

What is he cuts him in half?

500

A descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned

what is an epithet?

500

King of the Geats

What is Higlac?