The Terrible One's Horse: Revealing the Secrets of Norse Myth by Hunt August

Author:Hunt, August [Hunt, August]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Stag Spirit Books
Published: 2014-01-11T16:00:00+00:00

Let us take a closer look at the nocturnal habit of the Beowulf dragon. We are told quite specifically:

“So the guardian of the mound,

the hoard-watcher, waited for the gloaming

with fierce impatience…

…Then, to his delight,

the day waned and he could wait no longer

behind the wall, but hurtled forth

in a fiery blaze…

…Then back to the hoard

he would dart before daybreak, to hide in his

den.”

[Lines 2302-2320, Seamus Heaney translation]

As with Grendel, we are dealing with a monster that is active and most powerful only at night. In my mind’s eye, I saw the crescent moon – not only in the form of a boat, i.e. a Viking ship, but in that of a serpent that like the moon could shed its skin, forever becoming new again.

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