Beowulf

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shoulders parted the waves…seven nights you toiled in the tossing sea…his strength was the greater, his swimming the stronger!" (389-400). As Beowulf explained in his feud with Unferth, "We gripped in our hands naked swords, as we swam the waves, guarding us from the whales’ assault…freezing squalls, and the falling night…down to the bottom a savage sea beast fiercely dragged me…and so I was granted to slay with the sword edge nine of the nicors" (413-443). Basically Beowulf is trying to explain that the only reason he lost to Breca was because he had been swimming for seven days straight and he stopped along the way to kill nine sea creatures to make it easier for other travelers of the sea to get by. This was one of the first heroic acts Beowulf preformed. Through the eyes of an Anglo Saxon, Beowulf saved them from having to deal

with the sea creatures, because the sea plays a major role in the life of the Anglo Saxon’s.


 

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