New Land (Ch 11)

There's been commotion about some other place's meadhall called Herot. Since I'm awesome, I thought I should go over there and fix all their problems. I hear it's some monster named Grendel; what kind of name is that? He's been terrorizing that land for twelve years now, I hear. How have they not been able to defeat Grendel by now? That's pretty pathetic in my opinion. Oh well, guess I'll just get all my men ready and patch up old conflicts.  I load my men on the ship and a few days' sail later, I'm greeted by a poor man on the shore. When we arrived, "the Danes were not pleased" (159). I could understand that, because the monster has been mean.

Don't I look great?

Later that night I boasted at the meadhall with all the men around me, telling of my great victorious adventures. This total weirdo dared to talk back, claiming I'm a fake. He "predicted it will go even worse for [me] tonight" (161). I quickly shut him down, as I am literally the mightiest man on Earth.
I then called Unferth out again by revealing to everyone his deep dark secret- he killed his brother and did no heroic acts like me. Because of my actions, I'm clearly the greater guy and meant to fight Grendel, only me. We continued to party the rest of the night, doing our best to keep everyone lighthearted about the situation. I'm glad to see that everyone loves me, I don't blame them, I'm fixing their "insect" problem. Hell, I think the queen is even interested in me, she gave me a drink.
We're gonna have good night tonight with Grendel.

Works cited:

“Beowulf.” Heroverse, www.heroverse.com/my-product/beowulf/.
Gardner, John. Grendel. Vintage, 1989

DaftPunkVEVO. “Daft Punk - Get Lucky (Official Audio) Ft. Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers.” YouTube, YouTube, 18 Apr. 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV6Rdv1a3I.