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<body background="/grendel/proj1/Ansbgrd.jpg" bgcolor="#C0C0C0" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#551A8B" alink="#FF0000" stylesrc="/grendel/proj1a/mainbeow.html"> <h1 align="center"><img src="/grendel/proj1a/dragon.gif" border="1" width="350" height="230"></h1> <h1 align="center"><img src="/grendel/proj1a/Beoproj.gif" width="540" height="80"></h1> <p align="center"><font color="#0000FF" size="5"><strong>To see a more enhanced page with frames</strong></font><a href="/grendel/proj1a/beoframe.html"><font color="#0000FF" size="5"><strong> </strong><strong><b><blink>CLICK HERE</blink></b></strong></font></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="/grendel/proj1a/frrtop.html"><font color="#0000FF" size="4"><b>To see some images from Anglo-Saxon Culture CLICK HERE</b></font></a></p> <p align="center"> <img src="/grendel/proj1a/index4.jpg" width="585" height="19"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <h1 align="left"><img src="/grendel/proj1a/sutton.jpg" align="left" hspace="0" width="100" height="130"><font color="#000080" size="3">The section entitled "Further Celebration at Heorot" opens </font></h1> <h1 align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3">after Boewulf has slain Grendel's mother. This becomes </font></h1> <h1 align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3">acceptable adult behavior when you realize that Grendel and </font></h1> <h1 align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3">his mother are both monsters from the same evil metal. Beowulf has </font></h1> <h1 align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3">returned to King Hrothgar's beautiful Heorot Hall to celebrate his victory </font></h1> <h1 align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3">over evil Grendel. </font></h1> <p align="left"><font size="3"> </font></p> <h1 align="left"><font color="#000080" size="4"><strong><img src="/grendel/proj1a/cdhelme2.gif" align="left" hspace="0" width="100" height="150"></strong></font><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>Beowulf's boasts illuminate his heroic deeds. His crowing</strong></font></h1> <h1 align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>declares the mead hall now safe for all the thanes to drink </strong></font></h1> <h1 align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>in once again. Hrothgar, the honorable king of the Danes, </strong></font></h1> <h1 align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>is grateful for the monster's slaughter that Beowulf has done</strong></font></h1> <h1 align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>but is also reflective. Drawing on the experiences of a long life, he confides </strong></font></h1> <h1 align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>in Beowulf that he should not be quite so full of himself. He states:</strong></font></h1> <p align="center"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>"Keep yourself against that wickedness, beloved</strong></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>Beowulf, best of men, and choose better-eternal</strong></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>gains. Have no care for pride, great warrior. Now</strong></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>for a time there is glory in your might: yet soon it </strong></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>shall be that sickness or sword will diminish your</strong></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>strength, or fire's fangs, or flood's surge, or sword's</strong></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>swing, or spear's flight, or appalling age; brightness</strong></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>of eyes will fail and glow dark; then it shall be that</strong></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>death will overcome you, warrior."</strong></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="3"> </font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>Hrothgar is a wise and noble king. He is much older than </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>Beowulf and sees much of his former self in the young warrior. </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>Having lived and learned many lessons from the thousands of </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>experiences that Beowulf has yet to face, with great affection for </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>Hygelac's thane, Hrothgar tries to use his wisdom to help and </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>Beowulf on the difficult road ahead. To illustrate his point, </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>Hrothgar recounts the story of Heremod, a miserably notorious</strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>king, who stayed from the codes and procedures of that warrior</strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>caste. The evil one's main failure was a lack of respect for his </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>people. As Hrothgar explains, "He grew great, not for their joy,</strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>but for their slaughter." Not only did Heremod fail to share a</strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>portion of the wealth and power that God has given him with </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>his loyal retainers. he performed the most heinous of crimes, </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>the killing of his own clansman. In the end, this king, having </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>failed to live a just life, had few friends and died unhappy. </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>Then his people, without longing for their departed king, </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>advanced someone else to the office.</strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3"> </font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="4"><strong><img src="/grendel/proj1a/shield1.gif" align="left" hspace="0" width="100" height="90"></strong></font><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>Beowulf does not have any fear that Hrothgar's vision </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>is in his future. He is confident of his amazing courage. </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>His states, "Sometimes fate can save the undoomed man </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>if his courage is good." He is impervious to the mortal vices, which </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>would certainly have harmed a lesser man, and he quickly comes to the </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>bright light of such fame and glory. His fate (wyrd) is to remain forever </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>true to the path of his warrior code.</strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3"> </font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="4"><strong><img src="/grendel/proj1a/drago.gif" align="left" hspace="0" width="230" height="90"></strong></font><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>If Beowulf represents the heroic light, </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>the monsters Grendel and his mother are </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>compelled to darkness. The misunderstood </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>Grendel is angry, because he does not look like everyone else. He is shunned </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>by the people and cursed by God. Grendel does not have the same privilege </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>the warriors do. He can not enter the mead hall and partake of the feasting </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>and drinking that often occurs in Heorot Hall. In time he learns to take his </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>ostracism out on the others who are not related to his fate. </strong></font></p> <blockquote> <p align="left"><font size="3"> </font></p> </blockquote> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="4"><strong><img src="/grendel/proj1a/sword.gif" align="left" hspace="0" width="153" height="160"></strong></font><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>During the poem many different swords were used. The </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>swords represent special roles. Just as the legendary King </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>Arthur has his sword Excalibur, with its unique abilities, so </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>too do many of the characters in Beowulf. The older the </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>weapon, the more esteemed it is. Even the number of battles that </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>swords had been in and the amount of blood that they had shed had a </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>symbolic value to their owners.</strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3"> </font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="4"><strong><img src="/grendel/proj1a/drag3.gif" align="left" hspace="0" width="164" height="70"></strong></font><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>God also plays an important role in this chapter. He is </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>constantly being preyed to and thanked. The older </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>(Pagan) gods are referred to as Giants, who were killed by the true God </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>with "water's welling," a reference to the Christian biblical flood concerning </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>the story of Noah, his family and the animals saved in Noah's Arc. </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3"> </font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="4"><strong><img src="/grendel/proj1a/prey.gif" align="left" hspace="0" width="106" height="110"></strong></font><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>Beowulf stands in this chapter as a champion amongst the </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>other warriors, and he is honored and well received at the </strong></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000080" size="3"><strong>newly renovated (sans monsters) Great Hall. 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