Beowulf Certification Questions and CORRECT Answers
Elegiac: - expressing sorrow for something now past; melancholy lof: - loyalty; the praise and esteem of one's country men and contemporaries Objective immortality - one's existence depends on someone knowing about them Wergild - he price placed on a man's life. If a man was killed during Beowulf's time, it was possible to pay a price after the person's death in order to put an end to a blood feud. This was a way of saving face and averting further bloodshed. Thane - a free (non-serf) retainer of an Anglo-Saxon lord receives lands for military service often praises king Retainer - a person attached or owing service to a household, especially a servant (in return get land and treasure)
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