Beowulf "Heard how Grendel filled nights with horror and quickly commanded a boat fitted out, proclaiming that he'd go to that famous king would sail across the sea to Hrothgar" (Beowulf 112-115) It was Beowulf's loyalty to the Danes that conveyed him to Hrothgar to overcome Grendel. ... In his day, he was the mightiest man on earth, highborn and powerful" (Beowulf, 196-198). ... This same notion is again when Beowulf is depicted as, "the man who of all men was foremost and strongest in the days of his life" (Heaney 788). This passage demonstrates the idea of...

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