Anglo-Saxon

Question 0

Man price to avenge death

Answer 0

Wergild

Question 1

Fitts

Answer 1

Sections

Question 2

Poetic song or story

Answer 2

Lay

Question 3

Years of Anglo-Saxon era

Answer 3

449-1066 AD

Question 4

Who conquered England in 1066?

Answer 4

William the conquered from France

Question 5

A two word hyphenation used as a metaphor

Answer 5

Kenning

Question 6

Poet, singer, story teller

Answer 6

Scop

Question 7

Repositories of culture and centers of leaning

Answer 7

Monasteries

Question 8

What game does the Green Knight propose? (Gawain)

Answer 8

A knight can give him a blow of the axe if he can return the blow in 1 year and 1 day

Question 9

Where does Gawain have to travel to? What holiday is close?

Answer 9

Green Chapel; Christmas

Question 10

What is Gawain’s Christmas prayer?

Answer 10

Have a place to attend mass on Christmas Eve

Question 11

How are Gawain’s prayers answered?

Answer 11

A White Castle appears where he can stay

Question 12

How does Gawain betray his host?

Answer 12

He keeps the queen’s girdle, which she promised would make him immortal

Question 13

What was the primary concern in midieval literature?

Answer 13

Romance

Question 14

Who established the feudal system?

Answer 14

William the conquerer

Question 15

What trait does Gawain’s journey reenforce?

Answer 15

Humility

Question 16

Type of poem Beowulf is

Answer 16

Epic

Question 17

Wyrd

Answer 17

Fate

Question 18

4 highlights of chivalry

Answer 18

• prowess at arms
• intelligent
• eloquent
• skillful at charming a lady

Question 19

According to Gawain, why is the chivalric system flawed?

Answer 19

It is a part of human nature to be self serving when faced with fear

Question 20

Heroic paradox

Answer 20

Ultimate glory is to die in battle, but he can’t enjoy his glory because he is dead

Question 21

What is Beowulf’s primary attribute as a hero?

Answer 21

Preternatural strength

Question 22

3 battles of Beowulf

Answer 22

• Grendel
• Grendel’s mother
• the dragon

Question 23

How is Grendel’s mother killed?

Answer 23

Beowulf beheads her with a sword from the wall of her underwater lair

Question 24

How is Grendel killed?

Answer 24

Beowulf tears his arm off

Question 25

How does Beowulf kill the dragon?

Answer 25

He musters all his strength to stab his dagger into the dragon's belly

Question 26

What is Beowulf's motivation for killing Grendel?

Answer 26

Glory

Question 27

What is Beowulf's motivation for killing the dragon?

Answer 27

Treasure and protection of his kingdom

Question 28

Who is Grendel a descendant from?

Answer 28

Cain

Question 29

What was a Germanic lord's duty?

Answer 29

Keep people safe and well cared for by employing warriors, paid with treasure

Question 30

Courtly love

Answer 30

Nonsexual adoration by a man of a woman of higher status

Question 31

Beowulf opens and closes with what kind of scene?

Answer 31

A funeral

Question 32

Hall threatened by Grendel

Answer 32

Heorot

Question 33

Every Ango-Saxon hero has a doubter. Beowulf's is

Answer 33

Unferth

Question 34

Why does Grendel's mother come to Heorot?

Answer 34

To avenge her son, wergild

Question 35

How long does Beowulf rule?

Answer 35

50 years

Question 36

How does Beowulf ultimately die?

Answer 36

Dragon bite

Question 37

What religion was practiced when Beowulf was written?

Answer 37

Paganism

Question 38

2 examples of paganism in Beowulf

Answer 38

- Funeral pyres | - the dragon

Question 39

What religion was practiced when Gawain was published?

Answer 39

Christianity