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Quiz 2 Alternate Question

As with Grendel, the Beowulf poet presents the dragon (the wyrm) in a series of flashes, leaving it to the imagination of the listener or reader to form an image or understanding of the creature as a whole. Ferret out the passages in which the poet describes the dragon and pull them together into a coherent portrait. What does the dragon look like? How does it behave? What can said about its mind or personality?