Correct answer choice is :
D) The stranger smiled on, his downward-slanting eyes like empty pits. (161)
Step-by-step explanation:
Grendel is a role in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He is one of the poem's three opponents, all arranged in action to the protagonist Beowulf. Grendel is worried by all but Beowulf. Grendel is represented as dropped from the family of the Biblical character Cain, from Genesis 4 of the Bible.