Identify the context, and significance of the following passage from Beowulf (4-6 good sentences):                                The bright court of Heorot has been cleansed                                 And now the word is that you want to adopt                                 This warrior as a son.  So, while you may,                                 Bask in your fortune, then bequeath                                 Kingdom and nation to your kith and kin,                                 Before your decease.  I am certain of Hrothulf.                                 He is noble and will use the young ones well.           1180                                 He will not let you down.  Should you die before him,                                 He will treat our children truly and fairly.

On Christmas Eve, his prayer to God and the Virgin Mary is to “happen upon some house where mass might be heard”

He has ruled as king of the Danes for 50 years.  

Gawain has an image of her on the inside of his shield. 

Hrothgar’s retainer and friend, he is killed by Grendel’s mother; his head is found detached from its body.

Identify the context, and significance of the following passage from Beowulf: (4-6 good sentences)  “Think how the Heatho-Bards will be bound to feel, Their lord, Ingeld, and his loyal thanes, When he walks in with that woman to the feast: Danes are at the table, being entertained, Honored guest in glittering regalia, Burnished ring-mail that was their hosts’ birthright, Looted when the Heatho-Bards could no longer wield Their weapons in the shield-clash, when they went down With their beloved comrades and forfeited their lives. Then an old spearman will speak while they are drinking, Having glimpsed some heirloom that brings alive Memories of the massacre

Gawain has an image of her on the inside of his shield. 

Grendel is said to have  “he had dwelt for a time / in misery among the banished monsters, __________ clan.”  Which Old Testament character fills in the blank? 

  Identify the context, and significance of the following passage from Beowulf (4-6 good sentences):                                  No help or backing was to be had then                                 from his highborn comrades; that hand-picked troop                                 broke ranks and ran for their lives                                 to the safety of the wood.  But within one heart                                 sorrow welled up: in a man of worth                                 the claims of kinship cannot be denied.