Vocabulary
Review the vocabulary words before you read the epic poem Beowulf
Scop- Composers and storytellers of Anglo-Saxon poetry
Moored- Secure a ship
Gables- Decorative triangular-shaped roofing structures
Linded- Soft light wood
Mead- An alcoholic drink of fermented honey and water
Vexed- Irritated, annoyed
Gorges- Eats greedily
Sentinal- A person or thing that stands watch
Talons- Claws
Sinews- Tendons
Runic- Consisting or set down in an ancient alphabet used for writing Germanic script, especially in Germanic language, most often of Scandinavian or Britain from about the third to the thirteenth centuries
Pyre- A bonfire for burning a dead body