English Exam
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- Hygd
- Hygelac's wife, Queen of the Geats
- Hrothgar
- King of the Danes, father figure to Beowulf
- barrow
- a small hill
- Battle of Hastings
- 1066
- Hrothulf
- Hrothgar's nephew
- St. Augustine
- brought Christianity to England
- Hrethel
- Geatish king who took in Beowulf when father died
- Dramatic irony
- the audience or reader knows something that the characters do not know
- Hrethric
- Hrothgar's elder son
- thane
- warrior for a king
- Bede
- religious monk responsible for eccesiastical history of the English people
- Halfdane
- father of Hrothgar, Heorogar, and Halga. succeeded Beow
- Wigalf
- Helps Beowulf fight the dragon
- Brecca
- Beowulf's childhood friend, defeated in swimming match
- Ecgtheow
- Beowulf's father, Hrothgar's friend, dead when story begins
- Hrothmund
- second son of Hrothgar
- allegory
- means every character is a symbol
- Situational irony
- the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what is expected
- Unferth
- Danish warrior who is jealous of Beowulf
- caesura
- natural pause in a line of poetry
- Verbal irony
- a person says one thing while meaning another
- Wealhtheow
- Hrothgar's wife, Queen of Danes
- Shield Sheafson
- Danish king whom Hrothgar is descended
- Hygelac
- Beowulf's uncle, King of the Geats
- Aeschere
- Hrothgar's trused adviser
- Beow
- second king of Danish rulers, son of Shield Sheafson, father of Halfdane