Since before recorded history, environmental changes have affected things people value. In consequence, people have migrated or changed their ways of living as polar ice advanced and retreated, endured crop failures or altered their crops when temperature and rainfall patterns changed, and made numerous other adjustments in individual and collective behavior. Until very recently, people have responded to global phenomena as if they were local, have not organized their responses as government policies, and have not been able to respond by deliberately altering the course of the global changes themselves. Things are different now from what they have been for millennia.
Answer: Adeline's relationship with her father is distant and strained. She would love nothing more than to have a close relationship with her father. Her father, however, blames Adeline for her mother's death, and after marrying Niang, care only about keeping his new wife happy.
Grendel's mother arrived in Heorot after the ceremony held on behalf of Beowulf, to thank the warrior for his victory over Grendel. The warriors were resting in the mead hall when Grendel's mother grabbed Aeschere, a warrior most dear to Hrothgar and her son's bloodied arm that was on display.