Beowulf Terms and Such

Scop

A Anglo Saxon performer/bard that would tell stories by singing 🎶

wyrd

fate personified

Mead

A old-timey alcoholic drink made from 🍯

Comitatus

The Relationship between a thane and a Leader

Lof

Praise/Glory, Anglo Saxons say immortality through this instead of an afterlife

Chain mail

Armor made out of chains, very cool, very strong

Epic poem

a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

Wergild

“Man Price”-the Anglo-Saxon custom of a murderer paying some sort of price to their victim’s family. If the murderer doesn’t do this they are in big trouble

Caesura

Pause or break in the poetry line

Kenning

Metaphorical renaming of a noun, 2 words put together

Beowulf

The main guy, you know, you read a book about him

Grendel

The first bad guy that scared the Danes for a longgggg time (like 12 years) until Beowulf literally rips his arm off and he bleeds out. Then Beowulf is like, that was fun!

Grendel’s Mommy

The monster that lives at the bottom of possibly the scariest lake in the world, killed by unferth JKJKJK Killed by Beowulf

Dragon

The Geatish Monster that has really cool and cursed treasure. Beowulf kills it, but it also kills Beowulf in an intense double death moment.

Wiglaf

Beowulf’s #1 wingman, stands by Beowulf until the end 🐉
#brosforlife

Hrothgar!!!!!!

Ahem, introducing THE KING OF THE DANES…HIS NAME IS (dadadadadaaaa 🎺)….

Geats

The people where Beowulf is from aka Southern Sweden people

The Danes’ area

Where the beginning of the story takes place! Nowadays it’s called Denmark

Heorot Hall

The famous mead hall that was attacked by Grendel for so many years making the Danes feel very sad that they couldn’t party in their fancy place

Alliteration

The repetition of sounds like tttttttttt BUT not th :(