Now I cannot recallany fight you entered, Unferth,that bears comparison. I don't boast when I saythat neither you nor Breca were ever muchcelebrated for swordsmanshipor for facing danger on the field of battle.You killed your own kith and kin,so for all your cleverness and quick tongue,you will suffer damnation in the depths of hell.The fact is, Unferth, if you were trulyas keen or courageous as you claim to beGrendel would never have got away withsuch unchecked atrocity, attacks on your king,havoc in Heorot and horrors everywhere.But he knows he need never be in dreadof your blade making a mizzle of his bloodor of vengeance arriving ever from this quarter—from the Victory-Shieldings, the shoulderers of the spear.He knows he can trample down you Danesto his heart's content, humiliate and murderwithout fear of reprisal. But he will find me different.

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