(90-93) “And a clear song of a skilled poet telling with mastery of man’s beginnings how the Almighty had made the earth a gleaming plain girdled with waters.”
This is describing the songs coming from the halls of Heorot. They are about God’s creation of the earth and of man and people living happily under the power, protection and guidance of God. Since Grendel was exiled just far enough from the halls where he couldn’t take any part in the gatherings going on there, but close enough that he is forced to listen to the songs, they slowly torture him and exploit his yearning to be accepted through God’s eyes just like everyone else. After a certain point of torture his desire to be accepted changes to just wanting to get back at God, which is why, I believe, he goes on a killing spree.
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