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Beowulf 1
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The number of men Beowulf sails with to Heorot.
What is 14?
100
The place where the original manuscript of Beowulf now resides.
What is the British Library?
100
The antagonist in Beowulf.
Who is Grendel?
100
Grendel is retold by the antagonist of what parallel book?
What is Beowulf?
100
The men who find Grendel in the tree think he is this.
What is a tree spirit?
200
In the phrase "...shifting himself to a safer distance to bed in the bothies," this is what "bothies" means.
What is a small hut?
200
The three peoples represented in Beowulf.
Who are the Danes, the Swedes, and the Geats?
200
The first word of the poem.
What is hwaet?
200
The other two antagonists from Beowulf who appear in this book in addition to Grendel?
Who are Grendel's mother and the Dragon?
200
Who saves Grendel from death at the hands of the humans?
Who is his mother?
300
Beowulf was composed in this language.
What is Anglo-Saxon or Old English?
300
This place served as home for the people of this time
What is the meadhall?
300
The literary device seen here: "So tell us if what we have heard is true / about this threat, whatver it is, / this danger abroad in dark nights...
What is caesura?
300
The number of years Grendel is engaged in war with the Danes?
What is twelve?
300
The blind poet is referred by as this by Grendel.
What is the Shaper?
400
The country where the events in Beowulf took place.
What is Scandanavia?
400
The meadhall which Grendel attacks.
What is Hrogthar's?
400
"Destroyer of eagle's hunger" is an example of this.
What is a kenning?
400
The name of the meadhall Grendel attacks.
What is Heorot
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The story of an ancient warrior that Grendel overhears the Shaper telling of.
Who is Scyld Shefing?
500
The amount of time, in years, that Beowulf is king of his homeland.
What is 50?
500
The part of the Bible to which all the scriptural references in Beowulf are made.
What is the Old Testament?
500
Beowulf was the son of this man.
Who is Ecgtheow?
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The attack of this animal leads Grendel to conclude that the whole of existence is senseless.
What is the bull?
500
The warrior who tries to defeat Grendel out of desperation.
Who is Unferth?