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Lines 1–29: What contrast is developed between Herot, home of the Danes, and Grendel’s home? What words or phrases are used to describe the two settings?

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Herot's home was happy, fun, and bright with laughing. Grendel's home was haunted with moors and the wild marshes. He made his home in a hell not hell but earth covered with slime. The biblical allusions extended this contrast by Grendel being born of cain and banished by God. Herot being the ancient beginnings of us all and all things good.

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