Beowulf and the Slayer of the Marsh

It's one of the earliest witnesses we have to kind of this tradition of like the torments of hell and this idea let the punishment fit the crime, stuff like that. It's also important for Anglo-Saxon studies because it's actually quoted and in some places in paraphrase and others in the Beowulf poem when they tried to describe the Marsh where Grindel's mother lives. They go back and use a bunch of this stuff from these homilies that are normally descriptions of the tormented swamp or mirror. And so there's other stuff in there. Deliber connections throughout Beowulf between Sigurd,. The Slayer of the, I want to say is it Sigurd or

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