Across
- 1. purify, cleanse
- 7. making twisting or turning motions
- 9. Swedish warrior
- 12. important events that provide theme and backdrop
- 13. traveling minstrels
- 15. sadness and mourning
- 17. comfort, relief
- 18. mead hall
- 20. help from a god or supernatural force
- 25. larger than life character
- 27. king of the Geats, Beowulf's uncle and lord
- 28. Hrothgar's father
- 29. long, dangerous journey undertaken by the hero
Down
- 2. Danish warrior who doubts Beowulf
- 3. Danish king
- 4. Beowulf's father
- 5. stories about heroes passed from one generation to the next
- 6. disgusting
- 8. compensation for a wrong
- 10. long narrative poem that recounts adventures of a hero
- 11. reflect values of hero's culture
- 14. warrior who stayed with Beowulf
- 16. certain shared literary or formal characteristics
- 18. Beowulf's sword
- 19. written by authors, drawing on style of the folk epic
- 21. central character
- 22. actions demonstrating hero's courage
- 23. Latin for "in the middle of things"
- 24. big and solid, bulky
- 26. father of Wiglaf