Beowulf, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode XXIII
New Humanists
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Grendall - The Monstrification of the Blood Feuds
Grendal is an interesting character because, in a poem obsessed with fathers, who's the son of whom grandall's explicitly mentioned as having no father. He doesn't fit in this sort of heroic society. I don't know if it gives us any great answer to the question of what to make of grendel and sheell shaving. But i can point out the the poet's concern wh with parallelism and structureand you know, there are echoes left and right. This seems to be tt that the poet loves to do.
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