Beowulf Dialect Journal: #1-2

1. "They decked his body no less bountifully with offerings than those first ones did who cast him away when he was a child and launched him alone out over the waves." pg. 5

Shield Sheafson was exiled when he was an orphan. Shield came from nothing and turned into a great king. This sorta relates to the story of Moses of when he was drifting alone on a river as a child with treasures (precious to him) and when he was founded he became the prince of Egypt. So Shield is this allusion to Moses. 

2. "Grendel was the name of this grim demon haunting the marches, marauding around the heath and the desolate fens; he had dwelt for a time in misery among the banished monsters, Cain's clan, whom the Creator had outlawed and condemened as outcast." pg. 9

Grendel is an exile of God and he is a descent from Cain, Cain being from the Bible. In the Bible Cain killed his brother Abel and was marked by God. Through Cain's bloodline everyone has been seen a monster or an outcast of society.