Grendel

[sarah_patricia]

"I watch a great horned goat ascend the rocks toward my mere. I have half a mind to admire his bottomless stupidity. 'Hey, goat!' I yell down. 'There's nothing here. Go back.' He lifts his head, considers me, then lowers it again to keep an eye on crevasses and seams, icy scree, slick rocky ledges--doggedly continuing. I tip up a boulder and let it

Comments

[kingsleya]

What does Gardner offer as Grendel's motive for ransacking the meadhall?

[sarah_patricia]

it may as well be him-- someone had to be the enemy force. and as the dragon said (the one that would later be kill and be killed by Beowulf), you can't fight fate; you can try but what will happen will happen. it was his "thing." they were his people... he felt a sort of posession of them over time.

awesome book. comes highly reccommended. x10.