Herot, a large, majestic, fictional mead hall, is often the stage for much of the action in the medieval epic Beowulf. Built by the ever giving and wonderful King Hrothgar, it is a monument of Danish morals and ideals.
Hrothgar, meaning to live up to his predecessors and to make his people happy and content, "thought of greatness and/resolved/to build a hall that would hold his mighty band and reach higher to heaven then any/thing that had ever been known to the sons of men." (66-70). The Danes were very proud people. They were proud of their race. They thought themselves to be one of the best, and why shouldn't the best have a won
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