Beowulf Vocabulary
Across
- 2. composer and storyteller of Anglo-Saxon poetry
- 3. eats greedily
- 5. a fine paid to the relatives of a murdered person to free the offender from further obligations or punishment
- 6. an alcoholic drink of fermented honey and water
- 7. a person or thing that stands watch
- 9. consisting or set down in an ancient alphabet used for writing Germanic script, especially in Germanic languages, often Scandinavia and Britain from about the third to thirteenth centuries
- 10. decorative triangular-shaped roofing structures
- 13. secure a ship
- 14. tendons
- 16. gray or white with age
- 17. irritated; annoyed
Down
- 1. a hidden or carefully guarded supply or accumulation of valuables
- 2. morals or ethical considerations that restrain one's behavior and inhibits certain actions
- 4. morals or ethical considerations that retrain one’s behavior and inhibits certain actions
- 7. a sheath for a sword
- 8. moved stealthily
- 11. soft light wood
- 12. claws
- 14. to console or cheer
- 15. a bonfire for burning a dead body