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This is what Grendel resents about the Danes, as shown in this quote: “A powerful monster, living down / In the darkness, growled in pain, impatient / As day after day the music rang loud in that hall, the harp’s rejoicing / call and the poet’s clear songs…”
What is their happiness?
This is why the Danes flee Herot at night, as shown in this quote: “Then each tried / To escape him, searched for rest in different / Beds, as far from Herot as they could find, / Seeing how Grendel hunted when they slept.”
What is because Grendel hunts them while they sleep?
This is the character that speaks these words: “Whose soldiers are you, / You who’ve been carried in your deep-keeled ship / Across the se-road to this country of mine?”
Who is the Danish Guard?
This is the character that speaks these words: “Higlac is my cousin and my king; the days / Of my youth have been filled with glory.”
Who is Beowulf?
This is the character that speaks these words: “Grendel’s mother / Is hidden in her terrible home, in a place / You’ve not seen. Seek it, if you dare! Save us, / Once more…”
Who is Hrothgar?
This character is killed with a huge “magical” sword.
Who is Grendel’s Mother?
This character comes to Beowulf’s aid after he is wounded in the battle with the dragon.
Who is Wiglaf?
This character is the king of the Danes.
Who is Hrothgar?
This character a descendant of Cain.
Who is Grendel?
Beowulf is the king of this group of people.
Who are the Geats?
Grendel terrorizes the Danes for this length of time.
What is 12 years?
This is the name of Hrothgar’s great mead-hall.
What is Herot?
This is how Beowulf pledges to kill Grendel.
What is with his bare hands/no armor?
The number of men who carried Grendel’s head back to Herot.
What is 4?
This is called Hrunting.
What is Beowulf’s sword?
The author of Beowulf.
What is Anonymous or Unknown?
This vocabulary word means: Big and solid or bulky.
What is Massive?
This vocabulary word means: To rid of the impure, to cleanse or to purify.
What is Purge?
This is the name for a poet or bard that would orate epics like Beowulf.
What is a scop?
This vocabulary word means: Something making up for a wrong or an injury.
What is reparation?
The poetic device used in this quote: “That shepherd of evil, guardian of crime, / Knew at once that nowhere on earth…”
What are kennings?
The poetic device used in this quote: “I feel no shame, with shield and sword / and armor, against this monster…”
What is alliteration?
The poetic device used in this quote: “My heart is firm, / My hands calm: I need no hot / Words.”
What is a caesura?
The poetic device used in this quote: “…the horrible shrieks of pain / and defeat, the tears torn out of Grendel’s / taut throat,…”
What is alliteration?
These are the main components of an epic (must have ALL for credit!)
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