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Beowulf
Title: Beowulf
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1601 | Pages: 6.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Beowulf
Long ago in Hrothgar's Danish kingdom lived a gruesome monster-giant named Grendel, who nightly roamed the countryside. Rising from his marshy home, he would stalk to the King's high hall, and there devour fifteen of Hrothgar's sleeping warriors. Then, before departing, the monster would seize fifteen more men with his huge arms and bear them back to his watery lair. For twelve years the slaughter continued.
Word of this terror spread across the sea to …showed first 75 words of 1601 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1601 total…interrupted by speeches, pronouncements, songs, chants, and remembrances of battles past - excellent mnemonic devices for transmitting oral history.
The poem contains a valuable record of customs and values from a harsh and heroic time. It embodies the message: "Do your utmost. A good name, a glorified example, and fame after death are all you can win in this world. It is the courage to strive - not success which ultimately reveals and ennobles the true hero."
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