Description

discolored by bruising
a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
the ultimate agency predetermining the course of events
adjectives that point out special traits of particular persons or things
descriptive phrase or compound word that substitutes for a noun
praise, glorify, or honor
long narrative poem
a person related to another or others
“But leave your battle-shields here, and your spears, / Let them lie waiting for the promises your words/ May make”
“I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still…”
“I was new to the throne, / Then, a young man ruling this wide / Kingdom and its golden city; Hergar…”
“-a king, before, but now / A beaten warrior.”
“And death/ Would be better for them all, and for you, than the kind/ Of life you can lead, branded with disgrace!”
“I’d use no sword, no weapon, if this beast / Could be killed without it, crushed to death / Like Grendel, gripped in my hands and torn / Limb from limb.”
“I’d rather burn myself than see/ Flames swirling around my lord.”
“Once more, and again twisted gold,/ Heaped-up ancient treasure, will reward you/ For the battle you win!”
“For hours he sank through the waves; / At last he saw the mud of the bottom.”
“I’d leave my armor to my son, / Now, if God had given me an heir, / A child born of my body, his life / Created from mine.”
Where does the demonic creature live?
What value did Beowulf fight for that shows the values of the Anglo-Saxon period?
“And he saw, / Hanging high above, a golden / _____, woven by the best of weavers / And beautiful.”
“______, where his [Hrothgar] subjects congregate and make merry”
“The ______ drove / Those demons out, and their exile was bitter, / Shut away from men; they split / into a thousand forms of evil --- spirits / And fiends, goblins, monsters, giants, / A  brood forever opposing the Lord’s / Will, and again and again defeated.”
“Ran out with their bodies,/ The blood dripping behind him, back/ To his ___, delighted with his night’s slaughter”
“Then the Geats built the _____, as Beowulf/ Had asked, strong and tall, so sailors/ Could find it from far and wide;”
Beowulf's uncle, _____, is the king of the Geats
Cain's descendant, _________, terrorizes the country
What trophy was taken as a result of the first battle?
How many heirs did Beowulf have?
Father of Hrothgar?

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