Where as today anyone boasting that their "days of youth had been filled with glory" and that they could single-handedly do what armies of other men couldn't would have been thought arrogant Beowulf merely garnered respect. ... Beowulf refused to take any advantage in the fight versus Grendel not only for the honor involved, but because it would lessen his glory, which seems to be the main reason for his many battles. ... Perhaps in the minds of these early Englishmen his strength was a sign of his god-given power, but still he never would have been the hero he was with only his honor a...

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