Status Updates From Beowulf: A New Verse Rendering

This is making me miss The Pillars of the Earth. Mead Hall > Kingsbridge Cathedral. Both books are so morally exacting. Virtue is paramount and character is destiny. Moral worth the only thing that leaves a permanent mark on the world. Beowulf and Tom the Builder are the ethical, selfless leaders countered by the elemental cruelty and malice of Grendel and Hamleigh. I’m having a hard time staying in Denmark!

How do they have time to soliloquy whilst charging a dragon, that’s what I want to know