Anglo-Saxon
What language were the people known of speaking?
What is Old English
What is the language the poem was written in?
What is Old English
What are Beowulf’s people called?
What is Geats
What monster does Beowulf fight?
What is Fire-breathing dragon
Where Grendel runs away to die?
What is Marsh
Anglo-Saxons had converted to what?
What is Christainity
What is the religion that influences the poem?
What is Christianity
What are Hrothgar’s people called?
What is Danes
Why was “fate” maybe against Beowulf?
What is Old age and fighting for the wrong things
Where was Grendel’s mother’s lair?
What is bottom of the lake
Centuries of poet-singers were called what?
What is Scops
Where was the poem written?
What is England
Who was Higlac?
What is King of Geats and Beowulfs Uncle
What happened to Beowulf’s men?
What is became cowards and ran away
Where does the action of the story take place?
What is Scandinavia
Anglo-Saxon values what in Beowulf?
What is Bravery, Sacrifice, Loyalty, and Duty
A long narrative poem about a hero
What is Epic
Who is Beowulf’s father?
What is Edegtho
What did they do with Beowulf’s body?
What is burnt it and then placed it into a tower
Heron stood empty and stayed deserted for how many years?
What is twelve winters or twelve years
What is wryd?
What is personal fate
What is a pause or line break in Anglo-Saxon poetry?
What is Caesura
Who is Grendel spawned from?
What is Cain
Who came to Beowulf’s aid?
What is Wiglaf
What is a mead hall?
What is a gathering place for Anglo-Saxon communities