Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Beowulf Quotes

"Thoughts were as quick as his greed or his claws: He slipped through the door and there in the silence snatched up thirty men, smashed them unknowingly in their beds, and ran out with their bodies..." - What Grendel did to the people of Herot.

"She welcomed him in her claws, clutched at him savagely but could not harm him, tried to work her fingers through the tight ring-woven mail on his breast, ut tore and scratched in vain." - How Grendel's mother reacted when she first saw Beowulf

"All of us swore to repay him, when the time came,kindness for kindness - with our lives if he needed them..." - Wiglaf

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