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Grendel

In the Old English epic poem Beowulf, the male monster that the hero has to kill.

He is a giant, human in shape, a descendent of Cain, living in a murky pond with his mother, among other strange and vicious sea-beasts.



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Then under veils of mist came Grendel from the moor; he bare God's anger.
Perhaps he was the old Germanic god Beowa, and his exploits originally allegories, like some of those in the Greek mythology, of his services to man; he may, for instance, first have been the sun, driving away the mists and cold of winter and of the swamps, hostile forces personified in Grendel and his mother.
 
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