Beowulf Terms and Such

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Scop
A Anglo Saxon performer/bard that would tell stories by singing 🎶
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wyrd
fate personified
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Mead
A old-timey alcoholic drink made from 🍯
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Comitatus
The Relationship between a thane and a Leader
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Lof
Praise/Glory, Anglo Saxons say immortality through this instead of an afterlife
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Chain mail
Armor made out of chains, very cool, very strong
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Epic poem
a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
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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
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Caesura
Pause or break in the poetry line
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Kenning
Metaphorical renaming of a noun, 2 words put together
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Beowulf
The main guy, you know, you read a book about him
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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!
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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
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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.
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Wiglaf
Beowulf’s #1 wingman, stands by Beowulf until the end 🐉
#brosforlife
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Hrothgar!!!!!!
Ahem, introducing THE KING OF THE DANES…HIS NAME IS (dadadadadaaaa 🎺)….
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Geats
The people where Beowulf is from aka Southern Sweden people
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The Danes’ area
Where the beginning of the story takes place! Nowadays it’s called Denmark
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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
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Alliteration
The repetition of sounds like tttttttttt BUT not th :(