Grendel

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ One scholar has argued that the scene parodies the opening of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, marking for instance the ram as a reference to Chaucer's astrological ram, in line 8.[7]
  2. ^ A literal translation of the word Scop.

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