Across
- 2. In addition to attacks from Hygmod or Hrothulf, this also traps Hrothgar
- 7. The Power of Stories, Good versus Evil, Loneliness, and Fate and Free Will are all _____ in Grendel.
- 8. Red Horse tells Hrothulf that all government is inherently
- 10. How Grendel felt when the strangers arrived
- 11. During the winter, Grendel suffers from this the most
- 12. What made Grendel slip during his battle with the Stranger
- 14. Unsuccessfully battled Grendel in Grendel’s home
- 16. What Grendel thought of the Stranger
- 17. He is stronger than humans and animals, has primitive impulses and humanity
- 18. Hrothgar and his men thought Grendel was a tree spirit and ________
- 20. If Grendel just killed all the humans, he would lose his _______
- 24. What Weatheow’s people were called
- 25. What the Shaper inspired Hrothgar to build
- 27. The goat is a metaphor for ______
- 30. This “pulled” Grendel to see the Dragon
- 31. Only one who successfully battles Grendel
- 34. built his kingdom by uniting warring neighbors and building roads
- 35. Grendel things they are the most dangerous thing he has ever met
- 36. blind priest ho Grendel speaks to
Down
- 1. Sister of Hygmod and wife of Hrothulf
- 3. what Grendel was observing at the beginning of the book
- 4. To kill this person would have been the ultimate act of nihilism
- 5. What Grendel tried to do to Hrothgar’s men when the encountered him in the tree
- 6. Hrothulf’s political counsellor
- 9. Hrothgar’s nephew, planning a revolution
- 13. The Danes call their god the Great _______
- 15. the denial of knowledge or truth; rejection of beliefs in morality
- 17. Guilty of an ancient human crime; mute
- 19. The dragon put this on Grendel, which made him invulnerable to weapons
- 21. can see the past, present, and the future
- 22. The Dragon told Grendel to seek this out
- 23. According to the Dragon, Grendel’s role in the world was to be an ¬¬¬¬______ to humans.
- 26. The name of Hrothgar’s mead hall.
- 28. The Stranger’s childhood friend who challenged him to a swimming contest
- 29. The Shaper’s songs made Grendel feel this emotion about the ignorance of the Danes
- 32. Grendel’s only friend
- 33. blind poet who provides an altered version of reality