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Occasionally humani would fight on one side, and their exploits were recalled in great legends like those of Gilgamesh and Cuchulain, Atlas and Hippolytus, Beowulf and Ilya of Murom.† (source)
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Maybe you'll remember that Beowulf fought a monster.† (source)
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This section-a boom-arm and medical ward mod, a ragged chunk of the hull-had been ripped free of the ship as easily as Beowulf had torn the arm from Grendel's body.† (source)
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Beowulf is largely about the coming of Christianity into the old paganism of northern Germanic society—after being about a hero overcoming a villain.† (source)
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She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes.† (source)
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A short girl with dark curly hair is standing next to him in front of Beowulf.† (source)
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You had to know Old English and the History of the English Language and a representative selection of all that had been written from Beowulf to the present day.† (source)
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You'll see his name above Beowulf's Gauntlet—written in fiery script, clear as day.† (source)
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To be allowed, no, invited, into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.† (source)
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Beowulf, and old Grendel, and Lord Randal My Son, and all those things.† (source)
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Famed was Beowulf, far spread the glory Of Scyld's great son in the lands of the Danemen.† (source)
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For outstanding courage before the Enemy, the Gauntlet of Beowulf is awarded to Max McDaniels.† (source)
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MORE CONVERSE OF HROTHGAR AND BEOWULF: THE GEATS MAKE THEM READY FOR DEPARTURE.† (source)
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We lacked only our Geats; our great, broad-shouldered, small-brained Beowulf with his band of merry psycho-paths.† (source)
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Grendel, the monster in the medieval epic Beowulf (eighth century A.D.), is an actual monster, but he can also symbolize (a) the hostility of the universe to human existence (a hostility that medieval Anglo-Saxons would have felt acutely) and (b) a darkness in human nature that only some higher aspect of ourselves (as symbolized by the title hero) can conquer.† (source)
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"I passed English all right," I said, "because I had all that Beowulf and Lord Randal My Son stuff when I was at the Whooton School.† (source)
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