grendels

Updated: May 18, 2025

After which, probably, it will appear to the wild king that this bishop is the very man that he wants, the very opposite to himself and his wild riders; a man pure, peaceable, just, and brave; possessed, too, of boundless learning; who can read, write, cipher, and cast nativities; who has a whole room full of books and parchments, and a map of the whole world; who can talk Latin, and perhaps Greek, as well as one of those accursed man-eating Grendels, a Roman lawyer, or a logothete from Ravenna; possessed, too, of boundless supernatural power; Would the bishop be so good as to help him in his dispute with the Count Boso, about their respective marches in such and such a forest?

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge