Across
- 2. a bard or singing poet
- 4. The monster
- 6. Beowulf's dad
- 9. King of the Danes
- 11. the name of the sword that breaks when Beowulf fights the dragon
- 12. Beowulf's right-hand man at the end
- 13. The very first word in the Seamus Heaney translation
- 15. Hrothgar's dad
- 17. Biblical bad guy, ancestor of Grendel
- 18. a synonym for Old English
- 19. what they call loose armor made of chains
- 20. Beowulf's people; a seafaring tribe
Down
- 1. the Danes would have believed in this kind of mythology,
- 3. Beowulf's old pal who taunted him
- 5. a compound word that is a descriptive metaphor, like "sea road" for ocean
- 7. the number of swords Beowulf has in this story
- 8. The last name of the very first leader mentioned: Beow's dad
- 10. Main literary device used in the poem
- 14. the Danes were also called this
- 16. the kind of hero Beowulf is