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Beowulf
Beowulf's I.D.'s
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Undergraduate 2
02/17/2009

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Scandinavia
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home to Northern tribes
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Scop
Definition
composer of poems, entertains by singing stories and playing instruments (harp), records history, news-teller
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Epic
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a long, narrative poem with something historically huge at stake
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Mead
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an alcoholic beer like drink
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Heorot
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mead-hall where everyone drank and was entertained. Grendel visits everynight
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wyrd
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german root of the word weird. ca-notes the presence of the super natural. humans are prone to fate.
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suttonhoo
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ship burial land of Anglo-Saxons
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marches
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the land below Heorot (the mead-hall)
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heath
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a rather level open, uncultivated land
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fen
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marshy ground
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