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12 Cards in this Set
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What limb did Beowulf take from Grendel?
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His arm
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How many warriors came with Beowulf to Denmark?
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12 warriors
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How was the original manuscript seriously damaged?
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In a fire
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Who was beowulf written by?
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an unknown Christian poet.
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Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?
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the Anglo-Saxons
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In Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, what is the fate of those who fail to observe the sacred duty of blood vengeance?
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everlasting shame
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What is the poetic device known for the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group?
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Alliteration
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Referring to a sword as a "battle torch" is an example of what poetic device?
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kenning
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Are narwhals real or mythical?
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Real
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Who was Hrothgar's father?
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Halfdane
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Grendel was a descendent of which Biblical figure?
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Cain
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Is the direction of acceleration always in the same direction as the velocity?
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No
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