click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Beowulf99
Beowulf English Quiz
Question | Answer |
---|---|
alliteration | wondering what the soldiers would want |
Angles | the Saxons, Anlgos, Juits that went to the North Sea dominated England and brought Beowulf |
comitatus | common sense of being part of a team; the beginning of civilization |
Danes | Hrothgar is their king and they are tormented by Grendel |
didactic | teacher |
fame | the equivalent of the afterlife having a lasting name |
Geats | Beowulf and his crew's nationality |
gielp | a courageous speech; bragging |
kenning | a whale road= ocean; combining two words for one to create pictures |
king | Hrothgar |
Pagans and Monks | Christian overlay on the pagan's beliefs |
scops | poets |
Swedes | the only man who stayed behind to fight the dragon with Beowulf |