In one work, this character is described as "hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain," while another work named after him has chapters themed around zodiac signs.
In one work, this character is described as "hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain," while another work named after him has chapters themed around zodiac signs. In that work, he makes a list of blessings all beginning with the number 1, and he throws apples at a character who comes to kill him. This character claims that he's "had an accident… So may you all" before possibly jumping off a cliff in a novel where he espouses (*) nihilism; in that retelling, he spares a queen after her husband refuses to protect her, while in another work, Queen Wealtheow rewards a hero for killing him. This protagonist of a John Gardner novel almost ruins Hrothgar by looting Heorot. After his arm is ripped off, his mother comes out to avenge him by fighting the title hero of an Anglo-Saxon epic. For 10 points, name this first antagonist of Beowulf.
In one work, this character is described as "hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain," while another work named after him has chapters themed around zodiac signs.
Grendel