ENGL 320 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Weohstan
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Beowulf finally enters the cave and sees many giant boulders and a hot water stream inside. He shouts angrily to announce himself and it echoes off the cave walls. The dragon recognizes it as a human voice and reveals himself from behind a boulder. Beowulf raises his shield as the dragon comes forward, shrouded in flames. The shield does little to protect beowulf from the fire and he strikes the dragon with his sword, but the dragon"s scales protect it from being cut. Beowulf becomes nostalgic as he realizes more and more that he will likely lose the battle and die. He remembers wiglaf, who didn"t run away in the face of a deadly fight with fire, and who prevailed in the end. Renewed by the thought of victory, beowulf strikes the dragon"s head full force with the sword and the sword snaps in half.
