Beowolf

The things Beowolf learns in his fights with Grendel and Grendels mother are things that will earn him fame for the rest of his life and in the story of his conquests. He learns that weapons help but are some times not useable. Like in his fight with grendels mother, the sword of old he brings with him to do battle is useless and breaks but he finds a sword on a wall made by people from the past that had made is special by adding spells on it to make it stronger than a normal blad would have been. I think that him finding and using the sword he finds is symbolic some how but i do not know how.