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Beowulf - Grendel
Identifier
000971
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Some demons, some spirit beings.
A description of the experience
Beowulf
Grendel they called this cruel spirit
The fell and fen his fastness was
The march his haunt. This unhappy being
Had long lived in the land of monsters
Since the Creator cast them out
As kindred of Cain. For that killing of Abel
The eternal Lord took vengeance
There was no joy of that feud: far from mankind
God drove him out for his deed of shame!
From Cain came down all kinds misbegotten
- ogres and elves and evil shades –
…, who joined in long
wars with God. He gave them their reward