Beowulf- Characters
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snipe162 on October 25, 2012
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This is the set of characters for the Beowulf test with Mrs. Basquill.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Scyld Scefing | Legendary Danish king |
| Hrothgar | Current king of the Danes; builder of a great mead-hall; son of Healdene |
| Hygelac | Current king of the Geats |
| Unferth | Dane who challenges Beowulf's bravery and strength; son of Ecglaf |
| Heorot | Famous Danish mead-hall |
| Grendel | Danish monster who terrorizes Heorot; considered to be the son of Cain |
| Beowulf | A great Geatish warrior; thane and nephew to Hygelac |
| Cain | Killed his brother Abel |
| Breca | Beowulf's friend and swimming contest contender |
| Wealhtheow | Hrothgar's queen |
| Healfdene | deceased Danish king; father of Heorogar, Halga, and Hrothgar |
| Onela | king of the Swedes |
| Hecrogar and Halga | Hrothgar's brothers |
| Wolfgar | Hrothgar's herald |
| Ecgtheon | Beowulf's deceased father |
| Hrethel | Deceased king of the Geats, Beowulf's grandfather |
| Grendel | lost his arm in a battle in Heorot; his flesh is impervious to swords |
| Hrothgar | a good Danish king; rewards Beowulf with treasure |
| Hygelac | a good Geatish king; uncle to Beowulf |
| Beowulf | purges Heorot of a terror |
| Unferth | becomes a more silent man |
| Hrothulf | Hrothgar's nephew; he will eventually steal the Danish throne by killing his nephews who are Hrothgar's sons |
| Grendel's Mother | avenges the death of Grendel |
| Wealhtheow | reminds Hrothulf to protect her sons; gives Beowulf a precious circlet |
| Aeschere | Hrothgar's counselor; Grendel's Mother's victim |
| Sigemund | kills a dragon who guards a treasure |
| Fitela | nephew and companion-in-arms of Sigemund |
| Heremond | an evil Danish king |
| Hildeburh | an unhappy Danish princess who is married to the Frisian king to end a blood feud; both her brother and her son die on opposite sides of the same battle |
| Finn | King of the Frisians, husband of Hildeburh |
| Hnaef | a Danish warrior; brother of Hildeburh |
| Hengest | a Danish warrior who assumes leadership after Hnaef's death |
| Hrethric and Hrothmund | sons of Hrothgar and Wealhtheow; Danish princes; eventual victims of Hrothulf |
| Beowulf | slays Grendel's Mother, returns to Heorot with Grendel's head, and sails home to Geatland |
| Grendel | beheaded by Beowulf; his head becomes a trophy |
| Grendel's Mother | a mighty mere-woman; slayed by a giant's sword |
| Hrothgar | warns Beowulf about the dangers of power to corrupt; ultimately dies of old age |
| Aeschere | his head is used to lure Beowulf to a dangerous mere |
| Unferth | loans Beowulf his sword |
| Hygelac | son of Hrethel; has a splendid hall in Geatland; a valiant and noble king |
| Hrunting | an ancient sword loaned to Beowulf |
| Hygd | Hygelac's young, but wise queen; Haereth's daughter |
| Heremed | an ancient Danish king who slaughtered his own people |
| Modthryth | an evil queen who had ordered slain any courtier caught staring at her beauty |
| Offa | King of the Angles; his marriage to Modthryth tames her evil nature |
| Freawaru | Hrothgar's daughter, Beowulf predicts that her marriage to Ingled in order to end a blood feud will be unsuccessful and that Heorot will ultimately be burned to the ground |
| Hondscin | the Geatish warrior devoured by Grendel that first night in Heorot |
| Beowulf | a wise king who ruled Geatland for fifty winters |
| Hygelac | Beowulf's beloved uncle |
| Hygd | offers Beowulf the Geatish throne that belongs to her still young son |
| Heardred | Hygelac's son; king of the Geats; slayed by the Swedes |
| Dragon | guards the treasure-hoard of a vanished race for three hundred winters |
| Onela | a Swedish king |
| Wiglaf | given the Geatish throne by Beowulf; only valorous Geatish warrior |
| Eadgils | befriended by Beowulf; killed King Onela, the Swedish king who had killed Heardred |
| Hrethel | former King of the Geats; father of Herebeald, Haethcyn, and Hygelac; dies of sorrow over the tragic loss of his two eldest sons |
| Herebeald | killed by an arrow shot by his own brother |
| Haethcyn | committed an inexpiable sin; killed in a battle with the Swedes at Ravenswood |
| Weohstan | Wiglaf's father; owner of Eanmund's armor and war gear |
| Ongentheow | father of Onela; former Swedish king; killed Haethcyn |
| Eofor and Wulf | brothers who defeat the Swedish king Ongentheow |
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