"The chief of those Geatish men had accomplished all his proud vaunt before the East Danes, and had healed, moreover, all the woe and the tormenting sorrow that they had erewhile suffered and must of necessity endure, no little bitterness. Of this a clear token it was when that warrior bold had set the hand, the arm and shoulder, beneath the widespread roof -- there was Grendel's clutching limb entire" (J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, 36).
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