702a-722:
Com on wanre niht : in the dark night he came
Sy(th)(th)an he hire folmum (aet)hran: when his fingers touched it
Approach of Grendel to Heorot, ends with the start of an envelope pattern
- Bell-like repetition of 'com', humanisation of Grendel with every repetition
- Parallels with Beowulf: 'anum' (line 888), ambiguous pronouns, bolgenmod (capacity for interiority)- parallels to B and later line 723
- Concept of the 'metod': intrusion of poet, explanation of warriors' ease/sleep
- Sceadu-- oppositions of shadow and light (ambiguity of 'bearing' God's anger)
- Consistent Type A Sievers-- trudging, as with the 2nd COM we move back exterior
- 713- physical sense of the hall, and comitatus relationship/traditions, double alliteration
- Ambiguous syntax and lexis- 'rinc'- and conflict between monstrous and human
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