We've Created a Monster: The Strange Case of Grendel's Mother

M. Wendy Hennequin

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In her 1996 chapter for the Beowulf Handbook, Alexandra Hennessey Olsen says, The one female in Beowulf whom one might think no reader could ignore is Grendel's mother. Many scholars, however, do. ...

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