What attracts Grendel’s hostility is the music coming from Heorot, as the sound of Hrothgar’s minstrel singing joyfully of Creation rings hatefully in the creature’s ears. By terrorizing the realm of the good King Hrothgar and devouring Hrothgar’s subjects at night, Grendel stands as a representative of Cain, that first killer from whom, in the Beowulf mythos, “all evil broods were born, ogres and goblins and haunting shapes of hell, and the giants too, that long time warred with God.” In Tolkien’s view, the first noteworthy “point of contact” is manifested through the Beowulf monsters-particularly the ogre Grendel. Perhaps northern European folklore is more relevant to the Faith than we might think? Perhaps modern Christians can derive wisdom and inspiration from what Tolkien called “point of contact between Scripture and Germanic legend”? If Professor Tolkien and the ancient Anglo-Saxon storyteller are right, then Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) should interest not only philologists and Tolkien fans but the inquisitive Catholic layman, too. Tolkien, whose long-awaited translation of the greatest of Old English epics has finally been released. So believed the anonymous eighth-century Christian poet who saw fit to set down Beowulf’s adventures so too believed the late scholar and novelist J.R.R.
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Heathen or no, Beowulf does the Lord’s work, and knows full well that there is a higher power to Whom all must answer. In that case Ãonne âThenâ(*377) is clearerââThen later onâ when Hrothgar got a chance of learning more he heard that the little lad had grown up to be a champion wrestler.- “Beowulf and the Monsters,” J.R.R. He may not remember much about it or the causes of his fatherâs holiday abroad but sóhte holdne wine (*376) says Hrothgar: âhe has come back to visit a friend who has not forgotten himâ. I think that Beowulf is meant to have been at Hrothgarâs court as a young child. More likely is it that Beowulf had already been given a place in the legends of Denmark and Geatland before our poet handled the tale and is here (in his manner) merely giving selections from and allusions to other accounts. one of those who had been on the mission to Geatland (303â∴, *377â∹) to give the required information. It would have been easy to bring on any other character (e.g. But I do not think that is really the case. It is possible that the poet merely wanted to introduce some facts about Beowulf and found the speeches of Hrothgar a convenient and dramatic method, without considering the details of his machinery very closely. If Hrothgar ever paid a visit to the (on the whole) hostile court of Hrethel, that also would be curious and also is not mentioned. with his father when Ecgtheow was a refugeeâit is odd that he never alludes to this. If Beowulf had ever before been to Denmark to Hrothgarâs courtâe.g. It is not easy to imagine how Hrothgar knew Beowulf as a âboyââwhatever precise age that may mean. Tags: British Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Poetryģ00 while he was yet a boy *372 cnihtwesende
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