Quotes On Grendel 'From Beowulf'

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Quotes about Grendel from Beowulf

"... the other, warped in the shape of a man, moves beyond the pale bigger than any man, an unnatural birth called Grendel by the country people in former days."

"Every nail, claw-scale and spur, every spike and welt on the hand of that heathen brute was like barbed steel. "

"Everybody said there was no honed iron hard enough to pierce him through, no time proofed blade that could cut his brutal blood caked claw"

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