Beowulf

Beowulf: Twenty Questions for Discussion (ten short answers and ten long answers) Who is Scyld? Where does he come from? Where does he go? What does he do? Why does the poem begin here, rather than with Hrothgar and Grendel? What is Grendel’s lineage? What do the characters in the poem know about Grendel? How is this different from what we know? Trace the history of the hall Heorot—why was it built, what …showed first 75 words of 845 total…

…showed last 75 words of 845 total…social stability within the hall? In between every story and its audience stands a narrator who tells the story; the narrator has certain attitudes, opinions, interests and objectives which direct the audience’s understanding of the story. This is one of the most basic, and yet most complex, facts of literature. Describe the relationship between the narrator and the story, and between the narrator and the audience, in Beowulf. Back to the Beowulf Study Guide.