t hung over hoarystone, / Over churning water and bloodstained wave." (926-928), " ^Thewater boiled in a bloody swirling" (933) " ^The swimming forms ofsea-dragons, / Dim serpent shapes in the watery depths". These are thepictures that nightmares are made of. In comparison to our modern fiction, Beowulf might seem wordyand lengthy but when a reader takes time to savor the graphicdescriptions, vivid imagery, clever alliteration, and fantasticexaggerations one can understand how this thirteen hundred-year-old epicpoem has lasted through the years. It is beautifully and creativelywritten and has therefore stood the test of time for the reader or thelistener....
