Exercise Rounding it up of page 55

1. The three major battles that Beowulf fights are: the battle which he fights with the King Hrothgar against Grendel, a monster in human shape, the second one is against Grendel mother who comes to take revenge on her son’s death and the third one is the battle in that Beowulf manages to kill a dragon.
2. He embodies the heroic ideals as he develops from being a prince-warrior in his youth to a wise king in his maturity.
3. The mead-hall represents civilization or human word, while the outside world represents nature, not yet civilized, but therefore primitive wildness.
4. The monster represents the devil therefore sin, while the hero represents Jesus.
5. The three important features of Anglo-Saxon poetry that we can find in Beowulf are the structure of it that is divided into two halves, separated by a caesura or pause, with two stresses in each line. The line structure is regular and creates a strong rhythms. An important figures of speech of it is the alliteration and another typical technique is the kenning.

Ex 1 page 56

1. 10
2. 3
3. 1
4. 5
5. 9
6. 12
7. 11
8. 6
9. 8
10. 2
11. 7
12. 4

Ex 2 page 56

1. God-cursed; the Capitan of evil
2. Greedily looping
3. His rage boiled over
4. He ripped open
5. Pacing the length of the floor
6. A baleful light flared from his eyes
7. Gorged on him in lumps
8. Talon; claw

b. These words highlight his inhuman nature and animal instinct.
Reading these words, we understand that Grendel is an enemy of God, a terrifying monster that inspires fear.

Ex 3 page 57

1. F Beowulf do not help the warrior and wait Grendel in the place enstabilished in the plan

2. T

3. F He comebacks instantly

4. F Beowulf fights Grendel without weapons, hand-held

5. T

6. T

b. Cleverness, courage, physical strength

Ex 4 page 57

a.

1.      God-cursed Grendel / came greedily loping

2.      The captain of evil discovered himself / in a handgrip harder than anything

3.      And the bone- lappings burst. / Beowulf was granted
The glory of winning; / Grendel was driven under the fen banks, fatally hurt

b.

1. (m) the mouth of the building, maddening for blood

2. (g) god-cursed Grendel came greendily loping
3. (k)
4. (r) then his rage boiled over, he ripped open
5. (b) the mouth of the building, maddening for blood
6. (p) pacing the length of the patterned floor
7. (l) with his loathsome tread, while a baleful light
8. (f) flame more than light, flared from his eyes

Ex 5 page 57

1. Duel
2. Devours
3. Asleep
4. Bare
5. Pain
6. Tears
7. Wounded
8. Die
9. Clever
10. Equal