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  1. Feb 2021
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    1. The arm and the shoulder (there was all of the claw in Heorot. 45 Of Grendel together) ’neath great-stretching hall-roof

      They kept Grendel's arm and shoulder? That is kind of creepy. I guess it is like a souvenir or a trophy to show that Grendel was defeated.

    2. In warlike achievements, than Grendel does himself; Beowulf boasts of his ability to cope with Grendel. Hence I seek not with sword-edge to sooth him to slumber

      Beowulf does not need a weapon to kill Grendel, so he will only use his own strength.

    3. When I boarded my boat with a band of my liegemen, I determined to do or die. I would work to the fullest the will of your people

      This shows how brave Beowulf was and how he would do anything for the people of Heorot. It demonstrates the leader he was and his strength to go out and kill Grendel and Grendel's mother. Beowulf went out on his boat and was going to give it his all for his people.

    1. Full often we two pledged one another that naught but death should divide us; that is changed now.

      The wife and her lord had made a promise to never leave each other unless death parts them, but her lord left her.

    2. That went away, this also may

      I think that this means that Weland is considering that his sorrow will eventually go away since Beadohild got over her grief that she was feeling from her brothers' death and her finding out she was pregnant.

  3. Jan 2021
    1. Well do i know ’tis the way of the high-born

      This emphasizes how he feels that men should live. He does not think that it is right for him to share his feelings with anyone else. He believes that men should keep their feelings to themselves otherwise they are not seen as being strong. Therefore, he is all alone keeping their feelings to himself and not sharing.