Morlocks and Eloi of the Dark Ages

Andrea C. writes:

What does this sound like a description of?

Beowulf to Unferth about Grendel:

…he’s learned that terror is his alone,
Discovered he can come for your people with no fear
Of reprisal; he’s found no fighting, here,
But only food, only delight.
He murders as he likes, with no mercy, gorges
And feasts on your flesh, and expects no trouble,
No quarrel from the quiet Danes.

(595-601, translated. by Burton Raffel)

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Posted by Lawrence Auster at December 30, 2008 02:51 PM | Send