Beowulf Intro Quiz

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1. What language was Beowulf composed in? 2. Who was Beowulf? 3. Where was the poem written?

4. Where do the events take place? 5. Where do the events take place?

6. Where does Beowulf travel to? 7. How many monsters does Beowulf fight? 8. What is wergild?

9. Why do you think the Greek tales are more familiar to us than that of Beowulf which was written in our mother tongue? 10. What language did Seamus Heaney fell he was robbed of?

11. The first word of the poem, Beowulf, could be likened to? 12. According to the section on the names,most of the names in Beowulf are what kind of words/names?

13. What does wrym mean in Old English Bonus What does phantasmagoria mean?

What does agon mean?