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Beowulf

The Classical Mind

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What Motivates Grindel?

There's a long like Christian tradition and Beowulf is a, attacks that sort of heavily Christianized. And so they are personified a bit more than maybe you would typically think of them. So why is it that Grindel wants to come and do this long campaign of destroying the meat hall and killing people, but also why doesn't he finish the job? Right. Like why, why, how can he do this over and over and over, but he never brings full destruction to the place?"

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