Beowulf Class Vocab
Terms
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- Paradigm
- a model
- internecine
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a war between kin or people who have previously been allies
ex. civil war - wyrd
- fate
- caesura
- break in the middle of each line
- elegy
- poem of loss
- wergild
- death price
- kenning
- a compound word that has metaphorical meaning
- comitatus
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an idea where:
the king gives his retainers (subjects) gifts and generosity and in return his retainers give him loyalty