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Characters
Monsters
Plot
Misc.
100
This is the Celtic religion.
What is animism?
100
The original King of the Geats (Beowulf's uncle)
Who is Higlac?
100
Beowulf rips the arm off this monster.
Who is Grendel?
100
This made Grendel attack Herot.
What is their music?
100
The Geats are from this modern day country.
What is Sweden?
200
This is the language in which Beowulf was originally written.
What is Old English?
200
The protagonist of the story.
Who is Beowulf?
200
This monster tries to stab Beowulf with a dagger.
Who is Grendel's Mother?
200
Beowulf used these weapons to fight Grendel.
What is no weapons?
200
The Danes are from this modern day country.
What is Denmark?
300
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
300
King of the Danes.
Who is Hrothgar?
300
This monster kills Beowulf.
What is the dragon?
300
Grendel is a descendant of this person.
Who is Cain?
300
This is the reason the dragon was attacking Beowulf's town.
What is a thief stole a jeweled cup from him?
400
Repeated consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
400
This person is jealous of Beowulf and says he wasn't really a good warrior.
Who is Unferth?
400
Beowulf fights this monster to gain fame.
Who is Grendel's mother?
400
This person stays back with Beowulf after all the other warriors fled.
Who is Wiglaf?
400
This is the name of Hrothgar's town.
What is Herot?
500
He conquered England in the Battle of Hastings.
Who is William the Conqueror?
500
Beowulf fought a swimming match with this person.
Who is Brecca?
500
Beowulf fought this monster because Hrothgar helped his father when he needed it.
Who is Grendel?
500
Beowulf asks Wiglaf to build him a tower to hold his ashes after he dies for this reason.
What is so everyone will remember how great he was?
500
This person is King of the Geats at the end of the story.
Who is Wiglaf?