But death is not easily escaped from by anyone: all of us with souls, earth-dwellers and children of men, must make our way to a destination already ordained where the body, after the banqueting, sleeps on its deathbed.

But death is not easily
escaped from by anyone:
all of us with souls, earth-dwellers
and children of men, must make our way
to a destination already ordained
where the body, after the banqueting,
sleeps on its deathbed.

– Beowulf, Seamus Heaney (trans.)

Lines 1001-1007: Commenting on the doom of Grendel, the Narrator emphasizes that no matter who you are, your end will be the same as others, and one will face death.

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