Gréndel is one of the three antagonists present in the epic poem Beowulf, composed around the years 700-1000 AD. C. In the poem there are few descriptions of the monster, but it follows that it was a wild creature, with a brutal force and of enormous stature. Perhaps a demon or a giant, also referred to him in the poem as an ogre, an orc or a lycanthrope and son of Cain.
Grendel is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic <em>Beowulf</em>. He is a monster who is against the protagonist and hero Beowulf. In the epic, we learn that Grendel is a creature of darkness and evil. He is a descendant of Cain, and is cursed to exist in a world with no happiness. His mission to defeat Grendel is one of Beowulf's most important tasks in the story.
Ultimately, the excommunication of Emperor Leo III of Syria led to major tensions between the East and West as it forced the issue between the Eastern and Western Churches of the veneration of icons. Ultimately, a truce did emerge but major tensions continued to exist between the two branches of what was originally the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1865 President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.
