Tuesday 19 February 2013

Grendel, from 'Beowulf'

'Grendel', an illustration by JVL from British Myths and Legends 
(edited and introduced by Richard Barber), The Folio Society, 1998.

This is an illustration from Beowulf, a 10th century English poem.

'This gruesome creature was called Grendel, 
notorious prowler of the borderland, ranger of the moors,
the fen and the fastness; this cursed creature'...

'Then under cover of night, Grendel came
to Hrothgar's lofty hall' ...

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