The monster strained away:the man stepped closer. bewailing his pain.He was pinioned there The monster's desire was for darkness between them, by the man of all mankind living direction regardless,to get out and run in this world's estate the strongest of his hands. for his fen-bordered lair;he felt his grip's strength Not for anything would the earls'guardian crushed by his enemy.It was an ill journey let his deadly guest go living: the rough marauder had made to Heorot. he did not count his continued existence of the least use to anyone.The earls ran The crash in the banqueting-hall came to the Danes, to defend the person of their famous prince; the men of the guard that remained in the building, they drew their ancestral swords to bring with the taste of death.The deepening rage what aid they could to their captain,Beowulf. of the claimants to Heorot caused it to resound. They were ignorant of this,when they entered the fight, It was indeed wonderful that the wine-supper-hall boldly-intentioned battle-friends, withstood the wrestling pair,that the world's palace to hew at Grendel,hunt his life fell not to the ground.But it was girt firmly, on every side-that no sword on earth, both inside and out,by iron braces not the truest steel,could touch their assailant; of skilled manufacture.Many a figured for by a spell he had dispossessed all gold-worked wine-bench,as we heard it, blades of their bite on him. started from the floor at the struggles of that pair. A bitter parting The men of the Danes had not imagined that from life was that day destined for him; any of mankind by what method soever the eldritch spirit was sent off on his might undo that intricate,antlered hall, far faring into the fiends'domain. sunder it by strength-unless it were swallowed up in the embraces of fire. It was then that this monster,who,moved by spite Fear entered into against human kind,had caused so much harm the listening North Danes,as that noise rose up again -so feuding with God-found at last strange and strident.It shrilled terror that flesh and bone were to fail him in the end; to the ears that heard it through the hall's side-wall, for Hygelac's great-hearted kinsman the grisly plaint of God's enemy, had him by the hand;and hateful to each his song of ill-success,the sobs of the damned one was the breath of the other. 108 109 题