Beowulf

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of 's men who he let be devoured by Grendel. When Grendel came to he immediately saw who he was and before Grendel could grab him got hold of him. fought honestly without weapon because Grendel did not have a weapon either therefore would be shamed if he slew Grendel with a sword. After pulverizing Grendel he finished him off by tearing off his arm which Grendel then fled and died. The great arm of Grendel was hung above the mead hall. This lesson teaches us that if you fight fair you are destined to win.
A second moral taught in this poem is that good must always triumph over evil. For example when and one of his friends spent seven days and nights in the ocean they were not eaten by the nicors, infact they slew the nicors that came to cause them harm. These nicors were sea monsters that swam the deepest oceans snatching any kind of food they could. To come across as one of their meals was just an unlucky pick for slew them with his strength of thirty men. This is another ...

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