Beowulf Questions: in collaboration with Rheanna Crawley

Rheanna and I worked together on this over the week end. The other half (beginning is on her wall) We will put them together to make it complete on each of our blogs tomorrow. For now here is her blog as well.http://rcrawleyrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 

Further Celebration at Heorot

1. Beowulf gives Hrothgar Grendel’s head and the hilt of an ancient sword.
2. Hrothgar’s message for Beowulf is that a good leader looks for eternal rewards not earthly rewards. Hrothgar tells us that Heremond was evil, and he because he left his troops for the Jutes and died from betrayal. The lesson you can take from that is you should be good to others around you and have respect for your peers or else you are ultimately in trouble. 
3. Beowulf gives Unferth his sword back that Unferth gave to him earlier on.

Beowulf Returns Home

1. Hrothgar predicts that when Beowulf comes home he will be great with rewards and become a great hero.
2. Hygd is Hygelac’s wife who is also the queen. She is very young but also wise and beautiful. Queen Modthryth on the other hand is old and against her people and would kill people if they upset her.
3. Hygelac wants to marry Hrothgar daughter Freawaru to Ingeld so it may bring peace to the kingdoms. If they have eachothers ancestral belongings then it will cause a feud between the Danes and Heathbards. That way they can not fight with themselves.
4. Beowulf reports his own adventures accuaratley and plays up the monsters for being bigger and stronget then they actually were. He shares a lot about his performance of the daunting feat of might and courage.
5. Beowulf gives away most of his treasure to Hygd and Hygelac and in return receives more treasure and land.

Beowulf and the Dragon

The Dragon Wakes

1. Part two takes places about 50 years later. Hygd has dies and Beowulf has taken over. During this time there is a dragon nearing Beowulf’s kingdom.
2. The dragon is upset because his goblet was stolen along with treasure he has been guarding for 300 years. The treasure was left because it was from and accident civilization and everyone died which they knew was going to happen and left it there.
3. The dragon went in and destroyed the village rampaging and buring down everything.
4. Beowulf thought the gods were punishing him. He wants to defeat the dragon himself so the shield will assist him in doing that. Beowulf doesn’t realize is that he is 50 years older and doesn’t have as much endurance or strength and a sword and a little bit of armour won’t do him much.
5. Hygelac died in combat in Friesland. Beowulf survived thanks to his great swimming abilities. He didn’t want to take the thrown away form his son so he just helped and guided him along as a mentor till he was ready himself.
6. Hygelac’s son Heardred died in a skirmish against the Swedes.
7. When Beowulf meets the dragon he takes along with him eleven men to investigate.
8. Herebeald died in the grendel attack which made the king ready for revenge. Beowulf finally got the Swedes and Geats to a peaceful state.

Beowulf Attacks the Dragon

1.      Beowulf tells his companions to leave him to fight alone.

2.      When Beowulf first fights the dragon they wrestle as fire is shooting out and tires to cut the sword through him, but doesn’t work. Wigalf ties to stick by his side while the others run away.

3.      The second time Beowulf meets the dragon, once he got to the dragons head the sword breaks. The dragon then bites open Beowulf’s neck, and was probably going to die because it was so severe.

4.      Beowulf instructs Wigalf to go inspect the treasure so they can see what they obtained. He is was pleased with what he acquired and wanted to be buried in “Beowulfs Barrow”

Beowulfs Funeral

1. When the companions retuned ashamed for leaving. Wiglaf told the men that all of Beowulf’s generosity was wasted on them. He also predicts that because of their coward ness it will not only effect his great ruler but other things they come across as well.
2.  The messenger gets sent to the Geats to tell them the verdict of the battle.
3. Wiglaf tells the crowd that comes to see the dragon and Beowulf that it was his dieing wish to seek the treasure and buried in the burrow.
4. The dragon is thrown into the water.
5. For Beowulf they burn his body and then mourn his death. Then celebrate such a heroic king.
6. “quoth that of all the kings of earth, of men he was mildest and most beloved,to his kin the kindest, keenest for praise.” I would say that the Geats had high praise for Beowulf. Maybe it wasn’t what some people would say about a military hero, yet  as  person should take it in respect.