Beowulf Review

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Across
  1. 2. a bard or singing poet
  2. 4. The monster
  3. 6. Beowulf's dad
  4. 9. King of the Danes
  5. 11. the name of the sword that breaks when Beowulf fights the dragon
  6. 12. Beowulf's right-hand man at the end
  7. 13. The very first word in the Seamus Heaney translation
  8. 15. Hrothgar's dad
  9. 17. Biblical bad guy, ancestor of Grendel
  10. 18. a synonym for Old English
  11. 19. what they call loose armor made of chains
  12. 20. Beowulf's people; a seafaring tribe
Down
  1. 1. the Danes would have believed in this kind of mythology,
  2. 3. Beowulf's old pal who taunted him
  3. 5. a compound word that is a descriptive metaphor, like "sea road" for ocean
  4. 7. the number of swords Beowulf has in this story
  5. 8. The last name of the very first leader mentioned: Beow's dad
  6. 10. Main literary device used in the poem
  7. 14. the Danes were also called this
  8. 16. the kind of hero Beowulf is