- The setting of Beowulf is set in Scandinavian lands, somewhere in Denmark in present day geographic location
- Clan societies
- Honor, warrior, pride, courage
- foreshadows the hero's death and casket at sea with all the treasures with him and hence a banner waved in golden stature
Chapter I
- Scyldings is the chieftain who beared four children, one being Hrothgar in significance.
- Hrothgar won many battles and yet to make a mighty mead hall, therefore establishing one called Herot
- Herot: An elegant eating hall for the stereotypical Norman feasts with the big table in the middle
- Grendel, the monster that lurked around Herot, later terrorizing the inhabitants of the hall
- A reference to Cain, retaining the ideas of mythical beliefs shared upon the clan for entertainment and signifying that Grendel is Cain, but one who kills more.
Chapter II
- Grendel took the sleeping kinsmen of thanes, thirty of them to lair and killing them off
- the clansmen knew that Grendel was lurking and was soon being hunted every night by the terrorist
- "tidings true to clans men"
- The men of Herot tried to escape Grendel's wrath by sleeping elsewhere but still were murdered by the fiend
- Grendel did this all for 12 years, terrorizing Hrothgar and his men and refused to reach an agreement with the men of Herot
- "Grendel basically ruled all over Herot and the throne filled with darkness by Grendel's evil ways"
Chapter III
- The Geats hear of the drastic news of Herot and later sail off to Denmark
- A Scylding watchmen asks what they were doing and why they were there
- The Geats say that they will slay Grendel and end his horrors of massacres
- The leader of the Geats were escorted to Herot by the watchman after explaining themselves to the guard
- The guard said that he will protect their boat from other enemies
- Hrothgar's Herald is Wulfgar
- Beowulf announces himself as the leader of the Geat party
- Hrothgar accepts the audience of the Geats
- Wulfgar says that Beowulf is a strong able warrior
Chapter VI
- Hrothgar knows Beowulf by a descendant line
- "Beowulf's strength of thirty men"
- Beowulf is welcomed to the Danish lands because of these attributes
- Beowulf says that he will kill Grendel unarmed and unarmored
- He killed off other mythical creatures before as personal experience
Chapter VII
- Hrothgar speaks to the Geat men about a war between their country and the Wylfings
- He says to Beowulf that Beowulf's father slain the man of the enemy side
- Hrothgar was young at the time to know every detail of the feud and had to pay in gold for the feud to end
- Hrothgar explains to the Geats that Grendel and his wicked ways are haunting the men of the hall where they sleep and can't defeat the monster alone.
- The men feasted at the table to hunt down the beast
Chapter VIII
- Stories of Beowulf were among the Danes and the Geats
- Unferth comes up to challenge Beowulf about the stories of staying out in the sea with a friend to fight off other creatures and the natural essence of the sea
- Unferth worries about Beowulf facing Grendel alone
- Flashbacks about sea venturing when Beowulf was dragged to the bottom the sea by a creature where Beowulf managed to kill the monster by sword
Chapter IX
- Beowulf conquers the sea monsters who pounced upon sea men and lay dead on the shores
- Beowulf was not worried about the contest that happened between his friend and the suspicions of having a conflict within the Danish nations and the Geats.
- The same goes for Grendel who kills men out of cold blood
- The night goes on to where Beowulf must not sleep and remain in the hall to wait for his enemy
Chapter X
- The king withdraws to his bed while Beowulf awaits
- Beowulf makes it a challenge to kill the beast with no arms or armor
- While everyone was asleep, Beowulf wasn't
- Grendel lurked while Beowulf waited in vain
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