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Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
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J.R.R. Tolkien284 ratings, 4.12 average rating, 23 reviews
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“But we may remember that the poet of Beowulf saw clearly: the wages of heroism is death.
For these reasons I think that the passages in Beowulf concerning the giants and their war with God, together with the two mentions of Cain (as the ancestor of the giants in general and Grendel in particular) are specially important.
They are directly connected with Scripture, yet they cannot be dissociated from the creatures of northern myth, the ever-watchful foes of the gods (and men).”
― Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
For these reasons I think that the passages in Beowulf concerning the giants and their war with God, together with the two mentions of Cain (as the ancestor of the giants in general and Grendel in particular) are specially important.
They are directly connected with Scripture, yet they cannot be dissociated from the creatures of northern myth, the ever-watchful foes of the gods (and men).”
― Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
