Many a noble
Of Beowulf brandished his battle-sword old, Beowulf – Chapter 13: Grendel Is Vanquished

Shook/waved the sword around in a threatening manner

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For no cause whatever would the earlmen’s defender
Leave in life-joys the loathsome newcomer,
He deemed his existence utterly useless
To men under heaven. Beowulf – Chapter 13: Grendel Is Vanquished

Beowulf refuses to let Grendel live and nothing would ever change that

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He held him too firmly

Who was strongest of main-strength of men of that era. Beowulf – Chapter 12: Grendel and Beowulf

Beowulf pinned Grendel down with all of his strength

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The sound mounted upward
Novel enough; on the North Danes fastened

A terror of anguish, on all of the men there
Who heard from the wall the weeping and plaining,
The song of defeat from the foeman of heaven,
Heard him hymns of horror howl, and his sorrow
Hell-bound bewailing. Beowulf – Chapter 12: Grendel and Beowulf

Grendel’s cries are horrifying, and frighten the Danes

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The liege-kinsman worthy
Of Higelac minded his speech of the evening,
Stood he up straight and stoutly did seize him. Beowulf – Chapter 12: Grendel and Beowulf

Beowulf remembers his boast from that evening, and is determined to fulfill it

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Fearful in spirit, faint-mooded waxed he,
Not off could betake him; death he was pondering,

Would fly to his covert, seek the devils’ assembly:
His calling no more was the same he had followed
Long in his lifetime. Beowulf – Chapter 12: Grendel and Beowulf

Grendel wants to flee, as he thinks that he will die

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This early discovered

The master of malice, that in middle-earth’s regions,
’Neath the whole of the heavens, no hand-grapple greater
In any man else had he ever encountered: Beowulf – Chapter 12: Grendel and Beowulf

Grendel is amazed by Beowulf’s strength

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Nearer he strode then, the stout-hearted warrior
Snatched as he slumbered, seizing with hand-grip,
Forward the foeman foined with his hand;
Caught he quickly the cunning deviser,
On his elbow he rested. Beowulf – Chapter 12: Grendel and Beowulf

Beowulf and Grendel begin to fight

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Higelac’s kinsman
Great sorrow endured how the dire-mooded creature
In unlooked-for assaults were likely to bear him.
No thought had the monster of deferring the matter, Beowulf – Chapter 12: Grendel and Beowulf

Beowulf suffers from suspense

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Providence willed not

To permit him any more of men under heaven
To eat in the night-time. Beowulf – Chapter 12: Grendel and Beowulf

Fate decreed that Grendel shall devour no more heroes in Heorot

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