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The students’ response cut up everyone, but I didn’t think it was funny.

Everyone wished that Todd would cut himself loose from his mother.

The solution appeared to be a cut-and-dried issue but may be a little more complex.

The man who stands and fights with Beowulf to the end is Brecca. 

The beginning of Beowulf begins with a funeral; the end of the epic also ends with a funeral.  

In the last part Beowulf–during the battle with the dragon–King Hrothgar sends 25,000 of his best troops to help with the task.  

It is very sad that Beowulf never even has a chance to see any of the treasure at the end of the epic poem, Beowulf.  

Grendel lives with his mother under a swamp.

It is clear that the ending of the epic is a commentary on the Anglo-Saxon practice or believe of “wergild.” 

Beowulf asks Wiglaf to marry his wife and raise his children–since he realizes that he will no longer be able to do so.