st bare handed with no armor nor shield nor sword. It seems this time Beowulf could not fight as he had done when he was a young man, "Creatures who sleep deep in the sea were stirred into life...But fate let me find its heart with mysword, hack myself free; I fought that beastslast battle, left it floating lifeless in the sea." (40). He no longer could fight monster after monster, offering each one in turn, the sharp edge of his sword instead of himself, to chew on. Beowulf is also given a
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