anglo saxon/ beowulf Flashcards
what was beowulf burned on top of
a funeral pyre
the warriors drank what
mead
what was the name of the great hall
herot
who built herot
hrothgar
grendel felt his ____ snap as beowulf ripped his arm out
sinews
what type of shield did beowulf have that was useless against the dragon
linden
the excerpt from Grendel contains a ____ which mocks “the lord is my shepherd”
pardoy
beowulf has the strength of thrity men” is an example of
hyperbole
what tribe is beowulf a part of
waegmudning
who is king of the danish people
hrothgar
grendel is a descendant of ___
cain
compound metaphorical word structure and exapel
kenning
whales-way
mournful song that is sung at beowulf’s funeral
dirge
what part of th sword remained while beowulf was fighting grnedel
hilt
___ is a word whose connation differs today from its connotation in beowulf’s time
audacious
lyric poem that was written from a very differnt and unexpected perspective
the wife’s lament
bwoeulf wore ___ armor and had a ____ of ___ men who traveled with him to seek fame
mail
retinue
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bewoufl is an ____ poem written in ______
epic
old english
beowulf’s king____ precded him on the throne and ____ a brave warrior, succeedded him
hygelac
wiglaf
____ a warrior who at first mocked beowufl, later let him a sword ______ which he took with him to fight grendel’s mother
unferth
hrunting
after hrunting fails him against grendel’s mother, what does beowulf use
the giants’ sword
the fusion ____ and ____ ideals probably stems from the fact that the first person who recorded _____ was a __—- who wrote it down in the ________ centruty
pagan
Christian
monk
8th
one theme deals ____ a belief that life is brief and that the consolation of death is _____ and ____
transitoriness
fame and glory
the seafarer is conidered to be an ____ because it laments death in genreal
elegy
grendel sees wings attached to beowulf, which is an ____
allusion
french words were introduced into the old english language in ______ after the evetn that brought this time period to an end, which was ______
1066
norman conquest
the literature book that contains the lyrics from this tim period is the ____
exeter book
two history books from this period
bede’s history of the english perople
king alfred
a compound meatphorical adjective
epithet
transalor of of beowulf
seamus heaney
famous writer of a famous trilogy who has stuided beowulf and become a critic of it
j .r. r. tolkien
hortgar’s hall was destoryed in a fued with _____ his son in law
ingled
hrothgar’s favorite thane, was killed by______
ascheree
grendel’s mother
the translator of most of the anglo saxon works in our book
burton raffel
“if you win, it’s by mindless chance, make no mistake. accident”
speaker
you?
work
grendel
beowulf
grendel- work
” i war with the wind, with the waves i wrestle”
FL?
work?
personification
anchor riddle
“my soul roams the sea”
singificane?
work?
he has a home with the sea
teh seafarer
“chillly fire”
FL?
oxymoron
“and only one of them/remianed, stood there, miserable, remembering/ as a good man must, what kinship should mean”
man?
wiglaf
then he saw the mighty water-wtich”
he?
fl?
beowulf
kenning
hear me!
work?
purpose of quote?
beowulf
shows the oral tradition
his father’s warriorss were wound round his heart and bound to their prince”
fl?
assonance
but God’s dread-loom was woven with defeat for the monster
fl?
kenning
forwshadwonig
he who lives humbly has angles from heaven/ to carry him courage and strength”
work?
philospy?
the seafarer
turn the other cheek
“and our thoughts should turn to where our home is/ consider the ways of coming there”
work?
home?
the seafarer
heaven
“she had killed a glorious soldier, cut/ a noble life short”
she?
soldier?
grendel’s mom
aschere
the broken hinges rattle like swords”
work?
fl(2)?
grendel
similie
onomatopie
“mama! i bawl”
I?
grendel
every crystal of snow cries out cold-bloodied objectness”
work?
fl(4)
grendel cacophony alliteration hyperbole personification epithet
“but nothing golden shakes the wrath of God/ for a soul overflowing with sin”
work?
meaning?
seafarer
criticla of pagan burials with gold
“amen”
work?
the seafarere
water became bone”
work?
fl?
iceberg riddle
metaphor
it is good to find your grace/ in God, the heavenly rock where rests our every hope”
work?
the wanderer
“that my belovd sits/ under a rocky cliff rimed with frost/ a lord dreary in spirit, drenched with water/ in a ruined halll”
work?
the wife’s lament
“fate has opeend a single port, memory”
work
the wandeere
they have seen my srength for themselves,/ have watched me rise from the darkness of war, dripping with my enemies blood”
work?
significange?
beowulf
beowulf giving his resume to hrothegar in a soliloquy
everything earthly is evily born…and all this earth rolls into emptiness”
work?
point of view?
fl?
wnaderer
wanderer
hyperbole
the world is my bone cave, is shall not want”
work?
fl?
grendel
parody
for i push them to error.. yet they praise me more for each seduction “
work?
alcohol riddle
3 forces that control beowulf’s destiny
God, man himself, fate
3 pagan elemtns in beowulf
the wroship of the stone gods
pagan burials
wyrd or fate
3 Christian elements in beowulf
thanks God for his victories
statmenet about the creation story
grendel is a descendent of Cain
classify beowulf as an epic (5)
long- has over 3000 lines speeches- resume to hrothgar vast time and setting- 50 years, denmark and sweden heroic - 30 men strength worhty adversaries
3 histroical elemtns from beowufl
ingeld burned herot
king of geats was hygelac
hrothgar’s sons were killed by hrothulf
4 things about the history of the english langauge
norman conquest brought french into the english
viking brough the scandanavian influence
germanic tribes dubbed “angleish”
roman monks brought latin into english
whose soul romas with the sea
seafarer
why lyric ends with amen
seafarer
which lyric has a narrator and a speaker
wanderer
lyrics has a denotatvie and connotative meaning of the word home
seafarer
whihc lyric has a tone which progresses from despairing to very bitter
the wife’s lament
a lord dreary in spirit, drench with water
which lyric?
the wife’s lament
what country is beowulf from
sweden
what country is hrothgar from
denmark
how does beowufl kill grednel’s mom
chops off her head
why is the dragon angry
thief stole goblet
how many of hrothgar’s men did grendel’s mom kill
1
hrothgar’s wife
wealtheow
another name for the anglo saxon period
dark ages
who is the ring giver
the king
4 diffferences from beowulf to the seafarer
beowulf is less Christian
“ is older
the seafarer tells us to live humbly. while beowulf is more audacious
the seafarer is critical of pagan burials
4 similiarties of beowulf and the seafarer
both have the same style
theme of transitoriness
same translator- same time period
they both have a love fro the sea
