Match the description to the term or date.
sweden
1. hrothgar's kingdom
2. original form of beowulf story
denmark
3. latest date for original writing of beowulf
ad 1000
4. home of geats and beowulf
ad 790-830
5. death of hygelac
oseburg, norway
6. ship burial site
oral tradition
7
founded danish royal line
scyld scefing
8. date of beowulf manuscript
ad 521

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.