He attacks Hrothgar's mead hall and men every Spring being very careful that he only leaves enough to get them through till the next Spring. ... Grendel attacks Hrothgar's mead hall every Spring. On the twelfth year of Grendel's attacks he is bored with his yearly routine to the mead hall, and wants a challenge. ... Years after King Hrothgar has encountered Grendel he has expanded his territory, and builds a huge mead hall, that he calls Herot. ... Beowulf and his men gather in the mead hall, and Grendel is unable to resist, and soon attacks them. ...

• Word Count: 1613
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: High School

Beowulf exclaims, ""And when the sun/ Comes up again, opening another/ Bright day, anyone in Denmark/ May enter this hall: that evil [Grendel] will be gone!"" ... Hrothgar's mead-hall serves as the perfect buffet for Grendel's appetite. ... Hrothgar's mead-hall quenches Grendel's thirst for blood, which keeps Grendel coming back. ...

• Word Count: 498
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Unfortunately, "an evil spirit who dwelt in the darkness / endured it ill that he heard each day / the din of revelry ring through the hall" (l. 57-59). Grendel's territory is invaded and he responds by ravaging and destroying all the thanes in Hrothgar's mead halls. It is Hrothgar's pride that stops him from retreating and relinquishing the land he captured, even while Grendel "[Slays] thirty spearmen asleep in the hall" (8.82). The thanes in the mead halls will not retreat either, not because that feel that they could stand and fight successfully against Grendel, but largel...

• Word Count: 1018
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

And I shall fulfill that purpose, prove myself with a proud deed or meet my death here in the mead-hall" (632-638) Boasting in the poem seems to be a suitable and accepted form of self-assertion. ...

• Word Count: 390
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Songs would be sung about my heroic deeds in mead halls throughout the land, and I would be a model of greatness. ... The most recent transgression of the creature was two weeks ago, when he burst into Hrothgar's hall, scattering men like leaves in the wind and throwing tables aside. ...

• Word Count: 1047
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School