Show:
Who/What is it?
True / False
Anglo-Saxons Life
Story Time!
The Final Battle
100
King of the Danes (people of Denmark)
Who is Hrothgar?
100
"Beowulf" is set in England.
What is false. "Beowulf" is set in Denmark.
100
This dominated the Anglo-Saxon life.
What is Warfare.
100
The place from where Beowulf and his men came from.
What is Sweden / Geatland?
100
What type of Monster does Beowulf face in the Final Battle?
What is a dragon.
200
Greatest of mead-halls
What is Herot?
200
The Geats built Herot.
What is False The Danes built Herot.
200
T/F Boasting was considered rude and not tolerated back then.
What is False.
200
Hrothgar doesn't let people come to Herot because Grendel has been attacking Herot for this amount of time.
What is 12 years?
200
How Beowulf wants to be buried.
What is burned, then have a tower built around him?
300
Leaves claw behind in Herot
Who is Grendel?
300
The author of "Beowulf" is Anonymous.
What is True
300
The Anglo-Saxon belief that life was predetermined by fate.
What is fatalism.
300
What Beowulf brings back to Hrothgar after fighting in the monster's lair (2 things).
What are Grendel's Head and the hilt of the giant's sword?
300
Reason Beowulf knows he will not be victorious in the final batte. (What happened that made him know he would die?)
What is his shield melted?
400
Lives in a lake of fire.
Who is Grendel's mother?
400
Beowulf asks Hrothgar to give him an army of men to fight Grendel.
What is False. Fought him alone without weapons.
400
Skilled story-teller during the Anglo-Saxon time period.
What is a bard?
400
Grendel is a descendant of this biblical murderer.
Who is Cain?
400
What Beowulf's soldiers did when they faced the dragon.
What is run away and hide?
500
Fought alongside Beowulf against the dragon, and was his successor to the throne.
Who is Wiglaf?
500
"Beowulf" is a ballad.
What is False. It's an Epic
500
Sea-Road and Defender of Man are examples of this literary device used by Anglo-Saxon bards to create vivid imagery.
What is a kenning?
500
Why can't Grendel attack King Hrothgar or his throne?
What is because his reign is blessed by God. (Divine right to rule)
500
Stood by Beowulf during the final battle him and seceded him as King of Geatland.
Who is Wiglaf?