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well…this was our lesson in our english class…it was…interesting in the sense of its brutalness…hehe….though it’s a smart poetry….

First battle: Grendel

Beowulf begins with the story of King Hrothgar, who built the great hall Heorot for his people. In it he, his wife Wealhþeow, and his warriors spend their time singing and celebrating, until Grendel, an outcast from society who is angered by the singing, attacks the hall and kills and devours many of Hrothgar’s warriors while they sleep. But Grendel dares not touch the throne of Hroðgar, because he is described as protected by a powerful god. Hroðgar and his people, helpless against Grendel’s attacks, abandon Heorot.

Beowulf, a young warrior from Geatland, hears of Hroðgar’s troubles and with his king’s permission leaves his homeland to help Hroðgar.

Beowulf and his men spend the night in Heorot. After they fall asleep, Grendel enters the hall and attacks, devouring one of Beowulf’s men. Beowulf, who bears no weapon as this would be an unfair advantage over the unarmed beast, has been feigning sleep, and leaps up and clenches Grendel’s hand. The two battle until it seems as though the hall might collapse. Beowulf’s retainers draw their swords and rush to his aid, but their blades do not pierce Grendel’s skin because he is magically immune to human weapons. Finally, Beowulf tears Grendel’s arm from his body at the shoulder and Grendel runs to his home in the marshes to die.

Second battle: Grendel’s mother

The next night, after celebrating Grendel’s death, Hroðgar and his men sleep in Heorot. Grendel’s mother appears, however, and attacks the hall. She kills Hrothgar’s most trusted warrior, Æschere, in revenge for Grendel’s death.

Hrothgar, Beowulf, and their men track Grendel’s mother to her lair under an eerie lake. Beowulf prepares himself for battle; he is presented with a sword, Hrunting, by a warrior called Unferð. After stipulating a number of conditions (upon his death) to Hrothgar (including the taking in of his kinsmen, and the inheritance by Unferð of Beowulf’s estate), Beowulf dives into the lake. There, he is swiftly detected and attacked by Grendel’s mother. Unable to harm Beowulf through his armor, Grendel’s mother drags him to the bottom of the lake. There, in a cavern containing Grendel’s body and the remains of many men that the two have killed, Grendel’s mother and Beowulf engage in fierce combat.

Grendel’s mother at first prevails, after Beowulf, finding that the sword (Hrunting) given to him by Unferð cannot harm his foe, discards it in fury. Again, Beowulf is saved from the effects of his opponent’s attack by his armor and, grasping a mighty sword from Grendel’s mother’s armory (which, the poem tells us, no other man could have hefted in battle), Beowulf beheads her. Travelling further into the lair, Beowulf discovers Grendel’s corpse; he severs the head. Beowulf then returns to the surface and to his men at the “ninth hour” (l. 1600, “n?n”, about 3pm).He returns to Heorot, where Hrothgar gives Beowulf many gifts, including the sword Nægling, his family’s heirloom.

Third battle: The dragon

Beowulf returns home and eventually becomes king of his own people. One day, late in Beowulf’s life, a slave steals a golden cup from the lair of an unnamed dragon (sometimes referred to as Sua) at Earnaness. When the dragon sees that the cup has been stolen, it leaves its cave in a rage, burning up everything in sight. Beowulf and his warriors come to fight the dragon, but only one of the warriors, a brave young man named Wiglaf, stays to help Beowulf, because the rest are too afraid. Beowulf kills the dragon with Wiglaf’s help, but Beowulf dies from the wounds he has received.

After he is cremated, Beowulf is buried in Geatland on a cliff overlooking the sea, where sailors are able to see his barrow. The dragon’s treasure is buried with him, rather than distributed to his people, as was Beowulf’s wish, because of the curse associated with the hoard, and also accordance with Germanic and Scandinavian burial practices.

Ok…so today, i’m gonna be a 3rd year highschool. Same school since pre-school. Can you believe it? hehe…i’m nervous but my adviser has been our teacher for 3 years and she’s also my adviser when i was in 1st year. It’s pretty a relief but i’m very very nervous about my other teachers. They are very hard on us and really strict and i am pratically humiliated a dozen times. They keep teasing me but, i tried to be calm and let it go. For the sake of my grades. I really am praying for this year to pass by and get ready for 4th year. I really am scared and nervous. I just can’t seem to take off my memories of the humiliation i’ve gone through since first day and i feel like i’m about to burst. But, i kept praying and thinking that i’m doing this for my grades and for my tito and mama. Wah!

……………………………nervously humilited and having a hard time in geometry but i really believe i can really handle it………….please please please please…..hehe…sorry for overreacting but if you were in my case you’ll probably be nervous too….Ü

Well, i am very much bored and i want to buy the book twilight. I was told by Catherine that it is very very nice novel. I really want to see it! Well, my birthday was coming and i probably want to make it as my gift for myself…hehe…

Other stories. I am very interested in Fanfictions and so i asked my classmate to print the stories for me in favor for his CD of Sims 2 that he borrowed from me. Well, at least i have something to do….

…………………….i mean, besides blogging..and blogging…and blogging…………….hehe…………Ü