When Grendel approached the mead hall, the warriors inside were feasting and celebrating their victory. Grendel was angered by the noise and commotion, as he was an outcast who sought to terrorize and kill the men inside the hall.
Beowulf and his men fall asleep in Heorot, Grendel comes into the hall and attacks them. Grendel devours one of Beowulf's men, Beowulf had been feigning sleep and jumps up and grabs Grendel's arm. The two have a long violent battle that nearly brings the hall down. Finally Beowulf tears Grendel's arm from his body at the shoulder. Grendel runs to the marshes to die.
After Beowulf harms Grendel, the mother breaks into the hall to take his arm home. Beowulf is told by the king that htere are actually two monsters. Beowulf leaves at once to go underwater to kill Grendel's mother.
Beowulf and his men spend the night in Heorot. After they fall asleep, Grendel enters the hall and attacks, devouring one of Beowulf's men. But Grendel dare not touch the throne of Hroðgar, because he is protected by the almighty God. Beowulf, feigning sleep, leaps up and grabs Grendel's arm in a wrestling hold, and the two battle until it seems as though the hall might fall down due to their fighting. Beowulf's men draw their swords and rush to his help, but their swords break upon Grendel's arm because he has put a charm on all human weapons. Finally, Beowulf tears Grendel's arm from his body at the shoulder and Grendel runs to his home in the marshes to die.
With a giant sword hanging in her underwater cave. He beheads her. Edit by Afewmangos: This is a more specific answer. He travels down to the bottom of a swamp/lake in the middle of the forest, where Grendel's mom tries to choke Beowulf to death. Beowulf manages to escape. Then he spies a very old sword called Hrunting hanging from the wall. He grabs it and beheads her. The blood from the monster melts the blade of Hrunting, and Beowulf carries back to Hrothgar just the remaining hilt.
He rips off his arm and places it in Herot. Grendel runs home and laters dies in his lair but his mother goes back to Herot to kill and gets away until Beowulf goes to her lair and cuts off her head. He does find Grendel, however he is already dead by that point.Answer:As to the physical how-In the words of the actual poem (Seamus Heanley Translation), starting at line 815" ... a tremendous wound appeared on his (Gendel's) shoulder. Sinews split and the bone lappings burst ... Grendel was driven under the fen-banks fatally hurt. to his desolate lair" After the battle with Grendel's mother Beowulf finds Grendel's body in the cave "... in its resting place ..." and beheads it. (Line 1580)The symbolic how is diferent. Both Grenel and Beowulfrepresent the culture of the Vikings. Grendel the old ways with the worship of Odin and the other Aesir, Beowulf the new wave of Christianity coming to the land. Both are nearly invulnerable but Beowulf defeats Grendel as the new culture will overtake the old.
Beowulf is our oldest tale in anything remotely resembling English. It's about a warrior who kills a monster, then the monster's mother, and then dies killing a dragon. Gilgamesh is believed to be humanity's oldest written tale, although the Vedas are probably older(?). This tale, from Mesopotamia, what we now call Iraq, is about a king who is also part god and his wild-man sidekick, and their adventures. When the wild-man dies, the god-king undertakes a rescue mission to the Underworld, where he fails to rescue his friend and learns an interesting piece of information regarding humanity's relationship with the gods. I wouldn't want to ruin it for you. It's cool. Check it out.
Grendel sneaks into the mead hall at night, grabs men while they sleep, and kills them by tearing them apart. He terrorizes the warrior's mead hall, Herot, for twelve years, creating fear and chaos among the men.
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