Beowulf certification - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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-ser...

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-ser...