Across
- 4. dosent use weapons to fight
- 5. Long narrative poem that recounts the adventures of a legend hero
- 7. written by individual authors drawing on the style and conventions of the folk epic.
- 10. she wolf,sea creature, sea witch
- 12. mead halls name
- 17. the hero receives help from a god or another supernatural force.
- 18. hrothgars throne was protected by him.
- 19. wexstans son
- 20. celebration in the mead hall hurt his ears
- 21. where grendel and his mother lived
- 23. stories about heroes were recited or sung and passed down orally.
- 26. demonstrate the hero's courage, strength, or virtue.
- 27. danish warrior, questioned beowulfs ability
- 28. travelling storytellers or minstrel.
Down
- 1. beowulf took this after he killed him
- 2. important events from the history or mythology of a nation or culture.
- 3. latin for in the middle of things.
- 6. hrothgars dad
- 8. share certain literary or formal character.
- 9. warriors met to sacrifice to them
- 11. beowolfs sword
- 13. long,dangerous, journey or mission undertaken by the epic hero.
- 14. grendel terrorized hrothgar
- 15. danish king
- 16. reflect the values of his culture and usually figure prominently in the history or mythology of his people
- 22. beowolfs dad
- 24. central character of an epic
- 25. beowolfs dad
