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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 :(