Beowulf Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Beot | a ritualized boast |
| Comitatus | tribal structure where men would swear fealty to a hlaford(lord) |
| Hlaford | lord |
| Heriot | loan of fine armour |
| Flyting | contest of wits and cleverness |
| Heriot | gift of arms |
| Mead Hall | social center for immdiate community |
| Litotes | Verbal irony "You know Eintstein is not a bad mathmatician" |
| Scop | Old English Poet |
| Thegn | warrior who has sworn loyalty to lord |
| Wergild | legal system of germanic tribes |
| Wyrd | Fate |
| Censura | a break or pause in a line of poetry |
| Keening | a device for introducing descrpitve color or for suggesting associations without distracting attention from the essential statement "Helmet bearer=warrior" |
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