The name of the sword is Hrunting. It was given to Beowulf by Unferth (lines 1455-1458).
The name of the sword is Hrunting. It was given to Beowulf by Unferth (lines 1455-1458).
Hrunting
Unferth gave Beowulf an ancient sword called Hrunting to battle Grendel's mother.
The name of the sword is Hrunting. It was given to Beowulf by Unferth (lines 1455-1458).
The sword given to him by Hrothgar: Hrunting is said to have been tempered with the blood of Dragons.
Hrunting is not the name of the sword, because Hrunting bounced off of the sea-hag. Therefore, it is not the answer. The sword that killed her has no name. They had just called it, "The sword made by a giant."
Hrunting, a sword handed down from Hrothgar's forefathers.
His ancestral sword.
Hrunting was a formidable weapon, for "iron was its edge, all etched with poison," (XXI, 78).
Unferth gave Beowulf an ancient sword called Hrunting to battle Grendel's mother.
Beowulf tries using Hrunting, the sword the Danes had given him, to attack Grendel's mother because the mother wanted to avenge her son's death and was followed into her home in the lake by Beowulf. Beowulf's weapon was Hrunting and so he tried attacking the mom because of her previous actions (avenging the death of her son Grendel- the monster Beowulf killed- by killing a close friend of the king Hrothgar who's men were killed by Grendel, and retrieving Grendel's arm that hung from the rafters of Herot after the battle when Beowulf hung it there from tearing it off Grendel).