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The Battle With Grendel: Epic 4
The Battle With Grendel: Epic 4
The Battle With Grendel: Epic 4
from Beowulf
translated by Burton Raffel
Epic 4
Out from the marsh, from the foot of misty
Hills and bogs, bearing God’s hatred,
Grendel came, hoping to kill
395 Anyone he could trap on this trip to high Herot.
They had planned, could shatter what such skill had put
Together, swallow in hot flames such splendor
Of ivory and iron and wood. Suddenly
465 The sounds changed, the Danes started
In new terror, cowering in their beds as the terrible