This language was used to write "For a Swarm of Bees", one of twelve surviving metrical charms in this language.
This language was used to write "For a Swarm of Bees", one of twelve surviving metrical charms in this language. This language's "Rhyming Poem" is unusual because this language's verse is normally alliterative, not rhyming. A poem in this language about the story of Judith and Holofernes is found in the Nowell Codex. A partially extant poem from this language commemorates the Battle of (*) Maldon. In a poem in this language, a monstrous woman is killed by a magical sword in her home at the bottom of a lake, after she kills Aeschere. The hero of that poem is mortally wounded when he slays a dragon, and he saves the hall Heorot from the monster Grendel. For 10 points, name this language which was used to write Beowulf.
This language was used to write "For a Swarm of Bees", one of twelve surviving metrical charms in this language.
{Old English} [or {Anglo}-{Saxon;} do not accept or prompt on \"English\"]