Unit vocabulary

1. Beowulf
Vocabulary

2. Solace
Comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or
trouble; alleviation of distress or
discomfort

3. Mead
An alcoholic liquor made by fermenting
honey and water.

4. Mail
Flexible armor of interlinked rings. Any
flexible armor or covering, as one having a
protective exterior of scales or small plates.

5. Affliction
A state of pain, distress, or grief; misery
OUCH!

6. Banner
A flag formerly used as the standard of a
sovereign, lord, or knight

7. Fetters
A chain or shackle placed on the feet.

8. Loathsome
Disgusting; revolting; repulsive

9. Venerable
Commanding respect because of great age or
impressive dignity.

10. Scop
An Old English bard or poet; a storytelling
minstrel often accompanied by a harp.

11. Druid
• A member of a pre-Christian religious order
among the ancient Celts or Gaul, Britain,
and Ireland.

12. Elegiac
Expressing sorrow or lamentation.

13. Heroic
Having or involving recourse to boldness,
daring or extreme measures.

14. Epic
Noting or pertaining to a long poetic
composition, usually centered upon a hero,
in which a series of great achievements or
events is narrated in elevated style

15. Kenning
A metaphorical phrase used in Anglo-Saxon
Poetry to replace a concrete noun.
“the whale’s home” = the sea

16. Caesure/Caesurea
A break, usually near the middle of a verse,
and marked in scansion by a double vertical
line, as in know then thyself || presume not
God to scan.

17. Wyrd
A concept in Old English and Old
Norse culture roughly
corresponding to fate or karma.
Fate personified

18. Pagan
A person who is not a Christian, Jew, or
Muslim; an irreligious or hedonistic person