In a poem titled for one of these events, a man’s “overweening pride” causes him to shout “come quickly to us” from “across the cold water.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these events. In a motif from medieval poetry, a group of three “beasts” named for these events appear when these events occur.
ANSWER: battles [accept “Battle of Maldon”; accept beasts of battle]
[10e] The three beasts of battle are invoked in this poem, whose title character kills Grendel.
ANSWER: Beowulf
[10h] Hengest breaks a peace treaty and kills this character “in his own home” in a lay within Beowulf. The beasts of battle appear in an Old English fragment titled for the house of this Frisian king, around which a battle is fought.
ANSWER: Finn [accept “Finnesburg Fragment” or “Finnsburh Fragment”; reject “Finn McCool”]
<Albert Nyang, British Literature>