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| -has poetic lines that have a regular meter and formal,elevated, or even lofty language |
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| -has main characters who have heroic or superhuman qualities |
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| -has gods or godlike beings who intervene in the events |
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| has action in a huge scale, often involving the fates of entire peoples |
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| has stories that begin en medias res or "in the middle of things" |
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| has arate, or all around excellence |
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| is a man of high social status whose fate affects the destiny of his people |
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| is rarely modest, and boasts almost ritualistically |
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| is set in a time of Arthurian legend |
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| an epic poem written by an unknown poet in the year 700 AD. |
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| the poet was well educated and Christian |
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| poem is heavily influenced by Germanic and Scandinavian culture |
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| controlled human destiny, or fate, which always ended in death |
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| to leave a battle after their chief had fallen means lifelong infamy and shame |
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| the language of the people, as opposed to Latin |
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| Priests, Nuns, Monks, and all other people who worked for the Church |
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| the Latin epic by Virgil, with which the Beowulf poet was familiar (this meant he was well educated) |
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| the original name of England, means "land of the Angels" |
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| the social, economic, and political system the Normans brought with them was |
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| "man price" was the idea that the more well-born a man was, the more he was worth to ransom |
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| written by an unknown poet |
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| written in Middle English |
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| a man rents a room to a young student who has a plan to get him out of the way so he can get some alone time with his daughter. this tale involves rear ends |
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| as punishment for a crime against woman, a man is tasked with finding out what women want most in a year. he ends up married to an old woman who reveals to him the answer that women want all the power in the relationships |
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| Two brothers who are locked in a tower see a woman below in the garden and instantly fall in love with her. they swear loyalty to her and fight over her. one of the brothers gets released. the storyteller then asks which brother has it worse: the one who is out of prison but never gets to see the girl or the one who is in prison and gets to see her everyday |
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| a clever rooster who has a dream he is going to die. one of his hens tells him to man up and stoop worrying about it, so he does. the curse themselves at the end for falling prey to such flattery and prattling |
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| tale involves three rioters who, while inebriated, decide to go hunt down Death to stop him from killing their friends. they find an old man who says Deqath is hiding behind a tree. its a bag of money. two of the friends plot. they all end up dead and no one gets the money |
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