Ancient English
Old English
Early Middle English
Early Modern English
Onomatopoeia
Kenning
Caesura
Alliteration
Alliteration
Caesura
Kenning
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Caesura
Kenning
Onomatopoeia
True
False
Herod
Heorot
Hrothgar
Heotaf
Praying
Meditating
Boasting
Dancing
Love of glory
Family honour
Wealth and material possessions
Love of nature
The Danes
The Angles
The Jutes
The Geats
The Geats
The Danes
The Frisians
The Britons
Abel
Cain
Judas
Moses
With a sword
By pulling off his arm
With a bow and arrow
By decapitation
Cut off a lock of his hair to take to Geatland
Bury him under an Elm tree in Heorot
Wrap him in cloth and throw him in the lake
Sever his head to take to Heorot
He gives his daughter’s hand in marriage
He gives him the keys to his castle
He gives him the sword “Nægling”
He gives him a hug
True
False
True
False
A viking warrior
A poet from the oral tradition
A monk who wrote down poems from the oral tradition
A special weapon
5 years
7 years
12 years
45 years
Grendel falls asleep
Beowulf sharpens his sword
Grendel kills one of Beowulf’s men
Beowulf kills Grendel’s mother
Thomas Moore
Thomas a'Kempis
Thomas de Beaumont
Thomas a'Beckett
John of Gaunt
Wat Tyler
Henry Bolingbroke
Richard of Bordeaux
The Crusades
The Hundred Year's War
The Glorious Revolution
The War of the Roses
Geoffrey Monmouth
William Beckett
Geoffrey of Anjou
Geoffrey Chaucer
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