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(Hrothmund) is “cursed” or mentally handicapped because he was bom on the
first night Grendel came to Heorot).
27 Larry D. Benson writes: “The old theory that B eow ulf is an essentially pagan
work only slightly colored with the Christianity of a later scribe has now been
dead for many years” in “The Pagan Coloring of B eo w u lf' in Beowulf: Basic
Readings. Edited by Peter S. Baker. New York and London: Garland Publishing,
1995: (35).
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