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