Beowulf

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Across
  1. 5. supreme ordeal in Beowulf
  2. 7. Descendant of Cain
  3. 8. region where the Beowulf story may have derived
  4. 11. Great challenge
  5. 12. laying down one's life for others
  6. 14. Point of crossing
  7. 15. honoring the family name
  8. 16. oldest century Beowulf may have been written
  9. 17. To brag about conquests
  10. 21. Warrior's code
  11. 23. leaving the ordinary world
  12. 24. Mead Hall of the Danes
  13. 26. Admired by Anglo-Saxon values
  14. 27. Country of Hrothgar's people
Down
  1. 1. King of the Danes
  2. 2. Author of Beowulf
  3. 3. Genre of Beowulf
  4. 4. gathering place for boasting/story telling
  5. 6. acknowledgement for good deeds
  6. 9. Belief in 1 true God
  7. 10. Beowulf's father
  8. 13. Blueprint or template for hero character
  9. 18. amount of years Grendel has tormented Denmark
  10. 19. Ethnicity of Beowulf
  11. 20. Mythologist who modeled the hero through time
  12. 21. __ With a Thousand Faces
  13. 22. storytelling given before the written
  14. 23. shunned by Anglo Saxon culture
  15. 25. Heathen