Assuming
that the essay is the epic poem from around 1000 CE focusing on Beowulf in a third
person narrative:
“A
man would roar, "I'll steal their gold and burn their meadhall!"
shaking his sword as if the tip were afire, and a man with eyes like two pins
would say, "Do it now, Cowface! I think you're not even the man your
father was!" The people would laugh. I would back away into the darkness,
furious at my stupid need to spy on them, and I would glide to the next camp of
men, and I'd hear the same.”
