Grendel's 'Blessing In The Epic Of Beowulf'

In the book grenades last word were “poor Grendel had an accident….. So may you all”. When he said that this would mean that both humans and animals in the kingdom will be blessed. To understand why this would be a blessing there must be an understanding of what Grendel has done. For instance, Grendel says that “Bulls do such things, though they don't even know that the calves they defend are theirs." “Gardner Chapter 2, pg. 20”. Although, Grendel was talking about the bull fighting him he was also talking about the child that the bull had around there. So this is where the blessing come in to for the animal kingdom just as he dies another animal will be born which for most people they would call that a blessing. Furthermore, for mankind or humans as Grendel like to say he didn’t relay like them at all nor did he understand quit what they were doing but in the end he did find them entrusting. …show more content…
48). Which none the less will lead to him actually care just a bit about human kind. In that quote Hrothgar will most likely represent all the humans in the world well to Grendel that is. Nevertheless, Grendel last words would have also been a blessing to them because that ends the torment that they had to get from a vial creature like Grendel. In other words the blessing for human kind is the lessoning of a torment from evil creatures. To continue, when Grendel said "Nihilo ex nihilo,” (Gardner Chapter 10, pg. 150) which means nothing made out of nothing. He already knew that nothing that has been made was meant to be made so it was all and accident. So when putting his last word with "Nihilo ex nihilo," together his accident wasn’t not meant for nothing but for something so he was wrong about