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Quiz Review for //Beowulf:A New Telling//

 * Directions:** Please add your answers to the following questions to help you review for your quiz over the summer reading novel //Beowulf: A New Telling// by Robert Nye, which will be given this Monday, August 20. You may also click on the discussion tab and ask or answer one another's questions about the novel.

Examine the following list of major and minor characters from the novel. Briefly explain who each one is and, if possible, describe his/her personality traits and strengths/weaknesses. It it best to include examples from the book to support your reasoning.
 * Scyld Scefing- He was the first king of the Danes
 * Beowulf - name means bee hunter, used to be weak and sickly, nephew of Hygelac, very brave, killer of grendel and his mother, becomes king of the geats, good thinker, good at giving justice
 * Hrothgar - king of the danes, great grand son of Scyld Scefing, builder of the great hall Heorot
 * Wealtheow- Queen of the Danes (Hrothgar's wife)
 * Unferth - A whiny man who lived in Heorot but was killed by Grendel's mother. He was unhappy when he found Beowulf had killed Grendel. The Geats didn't like him but Beowulf found a way to respect him.
 * Grendel: an ugly and hideous monster
 * Breca - one of beowulfs friends, they liked to swim together,one day they had a competition that they would keep swimming with sword in hand as far as they could, they swam a long way then a storm struck up beowulf was caght in it and flung against the rocks ,brecca swam strongly tothe shore, he was a better swimmer then beowulf.
 * Grendel's mother (She) - companion of cain, even more vile and evil than Grendel,killed by Beowulf
 * Sigemund and Fitela -
 * Hygelac - king of the geats, beowulfs uncle
 * Wiglaf- a boy in beowulfs court who helpsdefeat firedrake

Skim the following sets of chapters and list the important events in the order in which they occur.
 * Chapter 1-2
 * Chapter 3-4
 * Chapter 5-7
 * Chapter 8-9
 * Chapter 10-11
 * Chapter 12-14
 * Chapter 15-16

At the end of the novel, one of the characters states "Beowulf was Beowulf" and will not elaborate. What do they mean by that? Beowulf was him self and did what he thought right, not what everyone else said.

Is Beowulf a hero in this novel? If so, how?