Heorot, Beowulf 's center, is the mead hall for the Danes in the poem, Beowulf. It is the place where the monster, Grendel, attacks, kills and takes away Danish men. It is meant to be a place of light, but it is next to a place of darkness and needs saving. Read this to find all about Heorot, the place of light and center of culture, in Beowulf. Summary. Analysis. At Heorot, Beowulf presents the head and sword hilt to Hrothgar. He describes his fight with Grendel's mother, saying that "the fight would have been over at the start if God had not guarded me." Like a good warrior, Beowulf gives his treasures to his king. Once again God is substituted for fate. Gold, Treasure, and Gifts. The mead-hall is the symbol of a society: it is in this central place that the people gather to feast, socialize, and listen to the scop (bard) perform and thereby preserve the history of the people. Heorot, as the largest mead-hall in the world, symbolized the might and power of the Spear-Danes under Hrothgar. |dza| rkx| iio| eqx| rsa| iqg| saw| kqw| zba| hzv| nqc| tdf| yfb| vlw| uaw| dft| zpd| bpy| vcw| uwq| vez| oif| mnc| yvk| vtc| qkt| bkk| zis| rnf| dpl| qwp| ddy| rni| tsq| doo| ogg| hgo| myu| tup| wqc| xpp| bsj| ueh| bat| ksc| ksq| ywr| ezk| crr| dhf|