Beowulf Video Summary

Match the following

• Herot

• Oldest surviving epic written in the English language

• The setting for Beowulf

• Grendel is disturbed by

• a Herot feast

• King of the Danes

• Hrothgar

• Pagan Scandinavia

• The Beowulf Manuscript

• Grand Danish Hall

Grendel is compared to the world's first murderer, the biblical

​ (a)   accuses Beowulf of losing a swimming race.​ ​

• Unferth
• Hrothgar

Match the following

• Beowulf becomes king

• How Beowulf defeats Grendel.

• He gets his arm in a death grip.

• When Hygelac dies

• Unferth's sword

• it melts when Beowulf fights Grendel's mother

• Beowulf fights Grendel without armor.

• He shows valor and pride.

• his underwater lair

• Setting of Grendel's death

How does Beowulf defeat Grendel's mother?

• he rips her arm off

• he stabs her in the heart

• he poisons her

• he chops off her head

The dragon seeks ​ (a)   when his ​ (b)   hoard is disturbed by a ​ (c)   .​

• revenge
• treasure
• thief
• repayment
• weapons

Beowulf fights the dragon mostly alone because ...

• a. all of his warriors fled except for Wiglaf

• b. because of his pride

• c. because his warriors are all killed by the dragon.

• d. both a & b

• both b & c