Beowulf

: Seeking revenge for her son, Grendel's mother attacks Heorot [41, 45]. Beowulf tracks her to her underwater lair and slays her using an ancient sword forged by giants [31, 45].

: A pervasive sense of fate looms over the poem, suggesting that while heroes can achieve glory, death and the eventual fall of kingdoms are inevitable [11, 23]. Beowulf

: The only existing copy is the Nowell Codex (Cotton MS Vitellius A.xv), which survived a fire in 1731 and is now held at the British Library [11, 19, 36]. : Seeking revenge for her son, Grendel's mother