For killing this figure, Wealhtheow gives a hero three horses, while in John Gardner's retelling of this figure's story, he spares Wealhtheow's life when her husband won't protect her. The Nowell Code
For killing this figure, Wealhtheow gives a hero three horses, while in John Gardner's retelling of this figure's story, he spares Wealhtheow's life when her husband won't protect her. The Nowell Codex describes this figure as a descendant of Cain. Considered a cannibal giant by the denizens of Heorot, his slayer later ventures into this figure's namesake "mere," a lake, in which he kills this figure's unnamed mother. FTP, name the first antagonist in Beowulf.
For killing this figure, Wealhtheow gives a hero three horses, while in John Gardner's retelling of this figure's story, he spares Wealhtheow's life when her husband won't protect her.
Grendel