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Grendel; what was it anyway?
Topic Started: Jan 25 2010, 12:58 PM (1,453 Views)
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Beowulf. It's a nice story with some strange creatures. The idea here is to find out just how possable the creatures are. Grendel, his mother and that dragon... ...but mostly the grendel.
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Jan 31 2010, 10:48 AM
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Jan 30 2010, 09:07 AM
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Jan 30 2010, 08:07 AM
a) Grendel was either a bogey-man, or a "giant", who was embellished over time, or
b) Grendel and his mother are an alien species
c) Grendel was some sort of reptomamale
Reptomammal? Is there such a thing?
Was, they are now gone.
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I'm sorry but what's the point of this topic ?! The story was a myth ! No Grendel was not real, if he was there would have been entire population of his so called species.

It's a shame how once productive and mentally interesting topics have gone bone dry due to topics like this or that have nothing to do with science , biology ... or even more importantly ... plausible speculative evolution !

It had to be said



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I thought this topic was about trying to make him plausible. Course he wasn't real. Neither are kahydronts. Trying to fit him into a phylogenetic tree and ecological niche is still fun.
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Are you plausible?

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It's a shame how once productive and mentally interesting topics have gone bone dry due to topics like this or that have nothing to do with science , biology ... or even more importantly ... plausible speculative evolution !

For some people, this thread is interesting. If you disagree you don't have to read it, and can devote your attention to those you consider worth recovering from their 'bone dry' status. If you feel that the discussion could use an injection of plausibility, offer some insights, but if your comments are ignored there's no reason to feel hurt. We are a surprisingly diverse community, and to each his own.
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Maybe some sort of frog?

O.K. now I'm realy slipping with ideas.
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Most likely the ape idea at the start is the best.
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I thought this topic was about trying to make him plausible. Course he wasn't real. Neither are kahydronts. Trying to fit him into a phylogenetic tree and ecological niche is still fun.
Yes, that's what I thought this whole website was about.
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Reptiles can go farther north than sometimes thought; Denmark (where Grendel and his mother live) is well within the range of several reptile species. Europe's only poisonous snake, the Adder, gets above the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia.

Beowulf's dragon is in Geatland, which is the southernmost part of what is now Sweden. Presumably whatever lets it breathe fire might help keep it warm, though ;)


Indeed the Adder goes up pretty far north...

But it's not the only poisonous snake over here in Europe.
We've got a couple of viper species (all venomous offcourse) and a few Elaphids that have venom.
Most of them live farther south and south east, but in Western-Europe we've got the Montpelliersnake(Elaphid, up to Austria), the Adder(viper) and the Asp viper (up to Luxembourg).



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And I live in vermont and see turtles in the town pond. Therefore, reptiles can live in that sort of place.
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You think they thrive based on an artificially contained habitat? And that's further south than us up here in angleland. How often do they breed, huh? They probably spend most time in the water, right?

Thay aren't thriving.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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O.K. but as it is auctly a natrel pond and they are very comen in it you may be wrong.
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