Beowulf
What angers the dragon?
Angers
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Aslan
Beowulf finds the dragon's treasure.
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jill d #170087
Beowulf stole a goblet from the dragon's lair.
"He had handled and removed a gem-studded goblet; it gained him nothing,
though with a thief's wiles he had outwitted the sleeping dragon; that drove him into rage, as the people of that country would soon discover."
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Beowulf
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Kylee P #493708
It isn't Beowulf who steals from the dragon and brings on the initial anger. The text says "someone [unknown]managed to enter by [the dragon] and interfere with the heathen trove. He...removed a gem-studded goblet; it gained him nothing, though with a thief's wiled he had outwitted the sleeping dragon. That drove him into rage" (lines 2214-2219).
A thief outsmarted the dragon and stole a goblet, and that is what awakened his anger.
Beowulf goes on to fight this dragon as a result, and after slaying it (and taking a fatal blow in the process) he instructs his comrades to take the treasure.
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Beowulf https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E_kdJ4Qd0lkCh5p7U0lCJ05-7oFf8R1HfasQX7T0ofI/edit
