LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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avoid intoxicating drink
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avoid silly people
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learn as much as you can from the books you read
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use your resources to the best of your ability
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Detailed explanation-1: -What chief characteristic of mead is described? its ability to intoxicate man and cause him problems.
Detailed explanation-2: -After the funeral ritual of burning his body, Beowulf’s men will build a barrow. The barrow is burial mound. Rather than burying the deceased underground, especially with a warrior like Beowulf, a mound would be built over where his body was burned in the funeral pyre.
Detailed explanation-3: -lair (n) a place where an animal lives, usually underground. blundering (v)
Detailed explanation-4: -scabbard – a sheath for a sword. Beowulf Vocabulary Words. 16. The warriors would locate the town’s hidden hoard, then head back to their ship, their sacks filled with golden chalices, and ancestral swords whose hilts, engraved with runic characters, told of ancient times.