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 :(

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