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Grendel's mother
Grendel's mother () is one of three antagonists in the anonymous Old English poem "Beowulf" (c. 700–1000 AD). The other antagonists are Grendel and the dragon, all aligned in opposition to the hero Beowulf. She is introduced in lines 1258b to 1259a as: "Grendles modor/ides, aglæcwif".
Grendel's mother, who is never given a name in the text, is the subject of ongoing controversy among medieval scholars. This is due to the ambiguity of a few
slain"), which in turn would be a kenning for "dís".
A few scholars have drawn from the work of Eric Stanley by exploring the term "ides" as "lady" when discussing Grendel's mother, such as Temple ("Grendel's Lady-Mother," 1986) and Taylor (who argues in his 1994 essay that the term "Ides" indicates that "Grendel's mother is a woman of inherently noble status.") In addition, others have suggested that Grendel's mother