Day 12: Shield

This puzzle is inspired by that famous passage in the Aeneid where the shield of Aeneas is described in incredible detail over the course of ~140 lines of poetry. The shield in this puzzle is 11 cubits square, and in fact it is basically a crossword puzzle on an 11x11 grid. The mythic(-ish) figures named are:

• Beowulf from Beowulf
• Odysseus from the Odyssey
• Ugolino from The Divine Comedy
• Rosalind from As You Like It
• Orlando from As You Like It
• and then Enceladus, Hydra, Diana, Psyche, and Daphne are all from Greek mythology.

I really hope the poem makes it possible to figure out how you're supposed to arrange these names to cover the grid. I really hope this puzzle is solvable. It should look like this:

B	E	O	W	U	L	F
		D		G
O		Y		O		E
R	O	S	A	L	I	N	D
L		S		I		C		D
A		E		N		E		I		D
N		U		O		L		A		A
D		S				A		N		P
O				H	Y	D	R	A		H
						U				N
					P	S	Y	C	H	E

Then you read across the center to get the answer, which is AENEID.

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