Beowulf of Bali

With envy and anger an evil spirit
endured the dole in his dark abode,that he heard each day
the din of revelhigh in the hall: there harps rang out,clear song of the singer.
He sang who knew tales of the early time of man,
how the Almighty made the earth,
fairest fields enfolded by water,set, triumphant, sun and moon
for a light to lighten the land-dwellers,
and braided bright the breast of earthwith limbs and leaves,
made life for allof mortal beings that breathe and move.

So lived the clansmen in cheer and revel
a winsome life, till one beganto fashion evils, that field of hell.
Grendel this monster grim was called,
march-riever mighty, in moorland living,
in fen and fastness;
fief of the giantsthe hapless wight a while had kept
since the Creator his exile doomed.,,,

But the evil one ambushed old and young
death-shadow dark, and dogged them still,
lured, or lurked in the livelong nightof misty moorlands:
men may say notwhere the haunts of these Hell-spells be.
Such heaping of horrors the hater of men,
lonely roamer, wrought unceasing,harassings heavy.

Am I the only one who sees the bombing of innocent feasting tourists in Bali as reminding one of Grendel killing the feasters of Herot halls?

Of course, the "modern" paraphrase study notes has included Grendel's point of view, and the novel Grendel is more famous than the original poem...

But perhaps Beowulf has the last laugh...because, even if few read the poem today, nevertheless, a professor who taught Beowulf and who used many of the motifs of the poem in his own fantasy was the basis of a movie that won 17 academy awards...

And Froda, father of Ingeld, is mentioned in Beowulf...