Footnote : Grendel is the name of a monster who appears in an Anglo-Saxon ‘epic’ called ‘Beowulf’. The poet Seamus Heaney is one of several people who have translated it into modern English. Heaney’s introduction is worth reading and gives his thoughts on what the long Beowulf saga is suggesting, or why it is still capable of talking to us. My two references to Grendel above were very much suggested by his interpretation. There are quite a lot of Grendels about, worthy of close attention.
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