Battle With Grendel’s Mother

By Cameron Ellis

• “And the bleeding sinews deep in his shoulder Snapped, muscle and bone split And Broke”

• Stricken with revenge Grendel’s mother attacked the Danes by killing Hrothgar’s best friend and retrieving Grendel’s severed arm.

• Beowulf Followed her into her Watery lair

•“And all at once the greedy she-wolf Who’d ruled those waters for half a hundred years

discovered him”

•“She welcomed him in her claws”

She stabbed Beowulf with her dagger which would have surely killed him but he was protected by his chainmail armor.

• “Then he saw, hanging on the wall, a heavy Sword, hammered by giants, strong And Blessed with their Magic, the best of all weapons”

•He swung the sword striking the she-wolf in her neck killing her, but the sword’s blade dissolved.

• He returned to herot with Grendel’s severed head and the end of the sword to

prove what he had done.

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