Posted: September 16th, 2017

Beowulf makes three trips to the underworld in the poem. Identify each of these trips and discuss their similarities or differences.

Beowulf makes three trips to the underworld in the poem. Identify each of these trips and discuss their similarities or differences.

Beowulf’s three trips: in Heorot where he battles Grendel at night; in Grendel’s mother’s cave; in the Dragon’s lair.
use textual evidence from the book "The Norton Anthology of World Literature" to support your writing (direct quotations, paraphrases or brief mention of events); however, no outside research for this essay.
The Norton Anthology of World Literature, volume B
Beowulf, pages 107-112