| A | B |
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| How is Old English different than English | Germanic in origin |
| What is a scop? | An Old English poet who provided the main entertainment at parties; perform/sung from memory; monks preserved what they said/sung by writing it down |
| What is the warrior culture of Old English? | Single duty of a man was to fight; worth as a man is determined by worth as a warrior; fealty |
| What is fealty? | Relationship between king and warrior; king owns the warrior's life and king gives the warrior shelter and food |
| Where did Beowulf happen? | Denmark |
| Who was the king of the Danes in Beowulf? | Hrothgar |
| What was the greatest Mead hall? | Heorot |
| Who was the monster and what was he terrorizing? | Grendel; Heorot |
| Who was the king of the Geats in what would be modern day Sweden? | Higlac |
| Who is the greatest of the Geat warriors? | Beowulf |
| When Beowulf offers his life to Hrothgar, who does he bring with him? | 13 warriors |
| Who was Beowulf's father? | Ecgtheow |
| What is mead? | Honey-like beer |
| Why could Grendel not touch the king's throne? | It was considered holy |
| Why kind of combat was Grendel vs. Beowulf? | Hand to hand |
| Why hand to hand Grendel vs. Beowulf? | Grendel cannot be hurt by swords |
| Why happens to Grendel's arm | It is ripped off and put up as a trophy in Heorot |
| Who steals the arm back and what else is taken? | Grendel's mother steals the arm and she takes with her Hrothgar's best thane. |
| Who chases Grendel's mother? | Beowulf |
| What does Beowulf find when he reached the haunted mere? | He finds that the thane is dead |
| Where does Beowulf fight Grendel's mother? | Underwater |
| Again (like with her son), what cannot kill her? | Ordinary swords |
| How does Beowulf kill Grendel's mother? | With a magical sword created by giants |
| After killing Grendel's mother, what does Beowulf do? | Cut off Grendel's head and bring it with the magic sword to Heorot |
| What does Grendel's blood do the sword? | Melt it |
| Who becomes king of the Geats? | Beowulf |
| What comes to terrorize Geatland | Dragon |
| What happens to Beowulf's man at the end? | They run away; only Wiglaf stays |
| What does Wiglaf do after the other men run away? | He kills the dragon with a dagger |
| What does the dragon do the Beowul? | He bites him in the neck, which poisons and kills him |
| How is Beowulf buried? | In a pyre with massive treasure in a barrow overlooking the sea |
