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... his sword to fight Grendel barehanded, and James Bond, who goes on a picnic with six mankillers he knows are planning to murder him before lunchtime. Mythological and supernatural connotations, appropriate to the legends of heroes, appear in both Beowulf and The Man with the Golden Gun. The villains...

... of men, his name Beowulf, Who, hearing of Grendel and minded to destroy him, Built a boat of the stoutest timber and chose him Warriors, fourteen of the best. The original of this passage is twenty-one significant lines. The translation of Edwin Morgan (1952), Lecturer in English at Glasgow University...

... encounter between the monster Grendel and the epic hero Beowulf. Like Beowulf, the modern Tarzans of serial and comicstrip fame stay under water longer than is humanly possible. The twentieth-century author, however, must attempt a scientific explana­ tion to make his hero s deeds plausible, whereas...

... been C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, creators of Narnia, Perelandra, and Middle-earth, the romance worlds that have intrigued and delighted a vast and diver­ sified audience. John Gardner s Grendel is a notable American example of this tradition, in which an academic medievalist creates...

.... 165 soul like arrows on armor. Why do we not draw in this poem and its like with our mother s milk? Why have we no nursery songs of Beowulf and the Grendel ? Why does not the serious education of every Engligh speaking boy commence, as a matter of course, with the Anglo-Saxon grammar ? For, he...

... by Duke University Press. CCC 0038-2876/87/51.50. 1. John Gardner, Grendel (New York, 1971), 157. The Structure of Horror 35 conflict between Marduk and Kingu. Rene Girard is probably correct when he claims, Monstrosities recur throughout mythology. 2 Ogres cer­ tainly inhabit the elaborately codified...

... generations had lived beneath frowning skies, had brooded in the gloomy forests of the north, or had grappled with wind and wave on the stern northern seas. They dwell in a hidden 226 The South Atlantic Quaeteely land, says Hrothgar in describing the haunt of Grendel and his dam, in the Beowulf, they dwell...