Beowulf Vocabulary

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