Old English developed from ? tribes.
  • alliteration
  • feasting.
  • Germanic
  • thanes
Read the passage from Beowulf.From where he crouched at the king's feet,Unferth, a son of Ecglaf's, spokecontrary words. Beowulf's coming,his sea-braving, made him sick with envy:he could not brook or abide the factthat anyone else alive under heavenmight enjoy greater regard than he did:The passage supports the inference that Unferth is
  • a cup-bearer
  • petty.
  • thanes
  • feasting.
Read Micah's inference about Beowulf.Beowulf does not fear death.Read the passage from Beowulf.If Grendel wins, it will be a gruesome day;he will glut himself on the Geats in the war-hall,swoop without fear on that flower of manhoodas on others before. Then my face won't be thereto be covered in death: he will carry me awayas he goes to ground, gorged and bloodied;he will run gloating with my raw corpseand feed on it alone, in a cruel frenzy,fouling his moor-nest. No need thento lament for long or lay out my body: if the battle takes me, send backthis breast-webbing that Weland fashioned and Hrethel gave me, to Lord Hygelac.Fate goes ever as fate must."Which sentence or phrase from the passage most likely helped Micah make his inference?
  • Fate goes ever as fate must.
  • a cup-bearer
  • Wealhtheow has not been impressed by the men who have fought Grendel up to this point.
  • feasting.
Read the passage from Beowulf.They marched in step, hurrying on till the timbered hall rose before them, radiant with gold.Nobody on earth knew of another building like it. Majesty lodged there,its light shone over many lands.Which feature of Old English poetry did this modern translation maintain?
  • petty.
  • a cup-bearer
  • feasting.
  • alliteration
Which excerpt from the modern translation of Beowulf most strongly reflects the half-line style of Old English poetry?
  • [Hrothgar] Now Holy Godhas, in His goodness, guided him hereto the West-Danes, to defend us from Grendel.
  • Wealhtheow has not been impressed by the men who have fought Grendel up to this point.
  • will go and ask himabout your coming here, then hurry back
  • Fate goes ever as fate must.
Read the passage from Beowulf.Then it was like old times in the echoing hall,proud talk and the people happy,loud and excited; until soon enoughHalfdane's heir had to be awayto his night's rest. He realizedthat the demon was going to descend on the hall,that he had plotted all day, from dawn-lightuntil darkness gathered again over the worldand stealthy night-shapes came stealing forthunder the cloud-murk.The passage features Anglo-Saxon culture because people are
  • feasting.
  • thanes
  • petty.
  • alliteration
Read the passage from Beowulf.So the Helming woman went on her rounds,queenly and dignified, decked out in rings,offering the goblet to all ranks,treating the household and the assembled troopuntil it was Beowulf's turn to take it from her hand.Which feature of Anglo-Saxon culture is described in the excerpt?
  • thanes
  • alliteration
  • a cup-bearer
  • petty.
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