Cain 's wicked scions : the elves , giants and other monsters : ``Soon he was swimming who safe saw in combat downfall of demons up-dove through the flood (2 .3 ) In this reference to the biblical flood , the author of Beowulf is suggesting that the sword 's creators were descendants of those that provoked God to impose the flood and probably they were descendants of Cain . The reference to Christianity is the mention of so called ``ancient law . When Beowulf sees ravages...











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