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• Setting- Denmark and Sweden
• Author- Unknown, probably a monk
• Anglo-Saxon was composed in the 7th or 8th century
• Anglo-Saxon

  Oldest surviving English poem
• Goods defeats evil
• Wergid - restitution for murder or expect revenge from Victim's relative
• Chant - life effect of the four-beat line
• Alliteration - "then the grim man in grees gathers his stre"
• Caesura - pause or break in the live of poetry.
• Caesura - oft to the wanderer weary of exile
• Kennings - Metaphorical phrase used instead of a name ( battle-blade and ring giver)
• Epithet - description name to characterize something ("Keen-Edge Sword)
• Hyperbole - Exaggeration
• Beo means Bright or Noble
• Wulf means wolf
• Beowulf means Bright or Noble wolf
• Beo means bear
• 521 A.D - death of Hygelac, mentioned in the Poem
• 680 A.D - appreance of Alliterative verse
• 835 A.D - the danish started rading other areas; after his, few poets would consider them Heroes
• Scop - a bard or story-teller
• Scop - was responsible for praising deeds of past heroes for recording history and for providing entertainment
• Thane - a warrior