Battle with Grendel
Where Grendel lives
What is underwater / in a swamp
What are Germanic tribes that invaded the British Isles in AD 449
A long narrative poem
What is an epic
The name of Hrothgar's mead hall
What is Herot
What is Cain
What words could characterize (describe) the "Dark Ages?"
What are brutal, ignorant, violent
"a body of wellborn men attached to a king or chieftain by the duty of military service" (Loyalty between lords and their knights and citizens)
What is comitatus
Hrothgar's father
What is Healfdane
Describe Grendel's mother's swamp
What is dark and dangerous; the water burns "like a torch" at night; animals would rather die of thirst than drink from it
Wergild
What is "he value set in Anglo-Saxon and Germanic law upon human life in accordance with rank and paid as compensation to the kindred or lord of a slain person"
The country where Hrothgar is from
What is Denmark
Grendel's swamp and Herot could be metaphors for what?
What is hell and heaven
With what does Beowulf fight Grendel and why?
What is his bare hands to ensure a fair fight and possibly to show his leadership / strength
Monasteries were main centers of what?
"an Old English bard or poet"
What is a scop
Beowulf's father
What is Edgetho
The alliteration of sounds such as "b" and "g" add what to the battle scene?
What is the brutality of the fight
What is he paid Edgetho's wergild
What are values / beliefs of Anglo-Saxon life
What are loyalty, bravery, honor, fate
Define feudalism
What is "a political and economic system" begun by William the Great in which a hierarchy exists among peasants, knights, church officials and nobles, and kings and queens; the king kept 1/4 of the land and gave 1/4 to the church, the rest went to the lower nobility; Anglo-Saxon peasants received no land
The country where Beowulf is from
What is Sweden