How did Shild become rich and honored?

For what was Beo known?

Who is Beo?

How was wealth shaped according to the text?

What happened when Shild died?

Who became the king after Shild?

What did Hrothgar want to build?

What was the name of the hall that Hrothgar built?

What did Hrothgar plan to do in the hall?

How did Hrothgar's subjects feel about him?

Using the text, what can we infer will happen to Hrothgar's hall?

Prologue

Hear me! We've heard of Danish heroes,

Ancient kings and the glory they cut

For themselves, swinging mighty swords!

How Shild made slaves of soldiers from every

Land, crowds of captives he'd beaten 5

Into terror; he'd traveled to Denmark alone,

An abandoned child, but changed his own fate,

Lived to be rich and much honored.

He ruled Lands on all sides: wherever the sea

Would take them his soldiers sailed, returned 10

Which line DOEN NOT contain ALLITERATION?

"ring-giving lord" is an example of what figure of speech?

"That towering place, gabled and huge,

Stood waiting for time to pass for war" (82-83)

"Their fame and wealth is shaped with a sword" (25)

Conceived a son for the Danes, a new leader

Allowed them by the grace of God. They had lived,

Before his coming, kingless and miserable; 15

Now the Lord of all life, Ruler

Of glory, blessed them with a prince, Beo,

Whose power and fame soon spread through the world.

"As far as the tide might run, they refused

To give him less from their hoards of gold

Than those who'd shipped him away, an orphan 45

And a beggar, to cross the waves alone."

"His armies, and he thought of greatness and resolved

To build a hall that would hold his mighty

Band and reach higher toward Heaven than anything

That had ever been known to the sons of men." 70

Who/what is Herot?

What language is Beowulf written in?

is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.