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Here is the famous Beowulf history, retold for the young-adult listener. Like the original Anglo-Saxon manuscript, it is split into three parts. The first section narrates Beowulf's struggle against Grendel. The second section says of the furious revenge of Grendel's mother, an ageless monster with indomitable will, who lives in a dark green, murky sea, which the Danes thought to be bottomless, and that can stalk and get rid of with her son's savage electricity. (This section is often left out of retellings.)The third section shows the fantastic hero in his declining years and hardly ever looks in retellings. Herein, Beowulf can be an old man. It really is generations after his assistance to King Hrothgar, and Beowulf is back home among the list of Geats as their chosen king. His final struggle shows his new method in preventing. Youthful speed and durability have been changed with cunning, deception, strategy. There are moments when his durability revives. His opponent is an increasing age dragon, who now flies little by little and awkwardly, but can still blast down enough hearth to imperil the Geats kingdom.
Ageing hero faces increasing age monster within an early-day twilight of the gods, with displays of valor and chivalry before these terms were known. The dragon breathes streaks of lethal hearth, but suffers shortness of breathing. The heavy scales on his body provide excellent armor, but have a tendency to tire him. While flying, he notices small birds passing him. The two competitors feel a grudging admiration and realize their era is concluding, no subject who is victorious their relentless duel.
