Grendel would hear the parties and music from his cave and it angered and annoyed him.
Lines 1-3 "A powerful monster, living down in the darkness, growled in pain, impatient as day after day music rang"
In his rage he would sneak out every night to go to the castle when all the men were asleep. He would kidnap, kill, or eat the Danes while they rested.
Lines 35-38 "Thoughts were as quick as his greed or his claws: He slipped through the door and there in the silence snatched up 30 men, smashed them unknowing in their beds and ran out with their bodies"
Every night Grendel would come to kill more men and every night he succeeded, leaving the men he didn't kill to greave for their lost friends.
Lines 41-44 "At daybreak, with the sun's first light, they saw how well he had worked, and in that gray morning broke their long feast with tears and laments for dead"
Grendel came again to kill another man, but tonight wouldn't be the same as the rest.
Lines 49-50 "The beginning might not be the end. And that night Grendel came again"
The king was furious at what Grendel had done to his men. He promised that he would make him pay for killing his men.
Lines 54-56 "To escape him, searched for the rest in different beds, as far from Herot as they could find, seeing how Grendel hunted when they slept
Though Grendel would kill the kings men, he would never dare touch the king for fear of the gods.
Lines 82-84 "He never dared to touch king Hrothgar's glorious throne, protected by god"
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