Quotes Flashcards
[about Grendel] “malignant by nature”
f
“haunted the glittering hall after dark”
g
“I was the strongest swimmer of all”
n
“Now I mean to be a match for Grendel”
n
“When it comes to fighting, I count myself as dangerous any day as Grendel”
b
“although he does possess a wild strength”
b
“bit into his bone-lappings, bolted down his blood”
b
“The captain of evil discovered himself in a handgrip harder than anything he had ever encountered in any man on the face of the earth”
b
“The hall clattered and hammered, but somehow survived the onslaught and kept standing”
b
“unless the burning embrace of a fire engulf it in flame”
b
“Beowulf was granted the glory of winning”
b
“beaten in battle, bloodying the path, hauling his doom to the demons’ mere”
b
“The bright court of Heorot has been cleansed”
v
“Grendel’s mother, monstrous hell-bride”
a
“She had been forced down into fearful waters, the cold depths, after Cain had killed his father’s son”
v
“grief-racked and ravenous, desperate for revenge”
v
“huge marauders from some other world”
d
“looks like a woman; the other, warped in the shape of a man, moves beyond the pale bigger than any man”
a
