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Trained storyteller and muscian

• Scop

• Lyre

• Johnny Depp

• librarian

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Where a burial ship was uncovered

• Sutton Hoo

• Dr. Strange's lair

• New Mexico

• Denmark

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An epic poem

• features a epic hero

• is a long narrative poem

• features elevated language

• conveys the values and culture of a society

• all of the above

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What is Tiw the god of?

• Music

• Sea

• War

• Sun

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Beowulf is a...

• Short story

• Autobiography

• Novel

• Epic poem

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Beowulf was originally written in...

• French

• Gaelic

• Olde English

• Shakespearean English

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The setting of Beowulf is modern day...

• Holland and Denmark

• Denmark and Sweden

• Sweden and Belgium

• Sweden and Holland

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The text of Beowulf has both of the following influences?

• Christianity and Druidism

• Druidism and Paganism

• Druidism and Islam

• Christianity and Paganism

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Who wrote Beowulf?

• William Shakespeare

• J K Rowling

• Unknown

• John Milton

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What does Anglo-Saxon mean?

• Someone who likes to play the saxophone

• A person of Germanic descent who conquered and settled in England

• A person of English descent who conquered and settled in Germany

• Someone of Viking descent who sailed around the world and settled in America

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