COINED FROM THE POEM BEOWULF

It all started with the reign of a great Danish King, King Scyld who had a great grandson Hrothgar. King Hrothgar of the house of Scyld was a nice king who happened to be loved by his people and was victorious at wars. The Danes were a Viking nation, proud warriors who built boats and ships to travel the seas and conquer strange lands.
During his reign as a king, he built a wooden hall which was lavishly decorated so he could honor the great deeds done by his warriors and he also intended making it the heart of his kingdom and also a place he could welcome his visitors and lavish them with great feast. After the hall was built, he called it Heorot. Every night while the King was in his kingdom, they held great feast which were accompanied by loud carousing.

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During that time, many years, monsters still lived on the earth. Many believed that in the beginning of time some people had incurred the wrath of the gods and were cast out of the human society. As time went on outcasts had grown into terrible, deformed and hateful creatures who took every opportunity to wage war against mankind, as they were jealous of those who lived by the grace of the gods. In the marshes near the Great Hall Heorot, there secretly dwelt two of these monstrous creatures, one called Grendel and the other who was his mother.

Grendel had the height of two men, and was as broad as four. He possessed monstrous and walloping strength and his body was covered in hard scaly skin. They lived in murky waters in a dark pond, and would attack line travellers passing through the marshes.
While Grendel was in the marshes, he had been listening to the merrymaking and feasting going on in Heorot. Provoked by the singing and celebrating of Hrothgar's followers which made him miserable, one night he decided to pay a visit to the hall. On arrival at the door of the hall, with one strike from his great and strong arm, he broke down the doors of the hall and broke inside howling terribly. The unsuspecting warriors who were feasting were totally taken by surprise, but soon they went for their weapons but their weapons had no impact on the monster. With his enormous strength, the monster grabbed two to three warriors at once, breaking their skulls and bones after which he gathered many of them under his arms and left the hall taking his prey back to the marshes where he and his mother had their own feast.

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A few days and nights passed during which King Hrothgar and his warriors were lamenting about the friends they had lost, they decided to repair and fortify the hall against subsequent attacks from the deadly and wild monster. They tried to find where the monster laid although they followed the bloody tracks left, they disappeared into the murky waters of the fen, and the King and his troops returned home unable to get their revenge which was so disappointing.

Few days later, Grendel struck again and the fortifications proved useless as it couldn't stop the monster from getting in and once again he appeared impervious to the blows of the warriors' swords and took with him as many as he could carry.
The King and his councilors decided to set a trap for the monster and a number of his bravest and strongest warriors volunteered to stay in the hall. They were convinced that as far as they were prepared, they will be able to defeat the monster. King Hrothgar sent words inviting champions across the Vi-kingdom to come and prove their bravery and defeat Grendel, but not one was successful as they all lost their lives in a brave but futile battle. Hrothgar realized that there was no-one around who could defeat this which led to him putting a stop to the feasting, and the hall was locked and empty. Grendel had developed much hunger for human flesh, and started marauding the countryside, finding victims everywhere he went.
Stories of his miserable deeds went viral unto other kingdoms until it reaches the ears of the great hero Beowulf. Beowulf was the nephew of the King of Geats, another Viking nation now called Gotaland. He was a prince of Geats and whose father was a friend of Hrothgar. Upon hearing the distress of the Danish king who was his father's friend, he seeked permission from his uncle to take a troop of his finest and bravest warriors to Denmark. Beowulf then gathered fourteen of the bravest Geat warriors, and sets sail from his home in southern Sweden.

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