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"Grendel is crazy, O,O,O! Thinks old Hrothgar Makes it snow!"
GrendelIve never seen a live hero before. I thought they were only in poetry. — Grendel
"Ive never seen a live hero before. I thought they were only in poetry. Ah, ah, it must be a terrible burden, though, being a hero--glory reaper, harvester of monsters! Everybody always watching you, weighing you, seeing if youre still heroic. You know how it is--he he! Sooner or later the harvest virgin will make her mistake in the haystack." I laughed."
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Grendel is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He is one of the poem's three antagonists, all aligned in opposition against the protagonist Beowulf. He is referred to as both an eoten and a þyrs, types of beings from wider Germanic mythology. He is also described as a descendant of the Biblical Cain and "a creature of darkness, exiled from happiness and accursed of God, the destroyer
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