Description acceptable. After returning from this place, a character watches an object “wilt into gory icicles” in a passage that concludes “He who wields power over time and tide: (15[1])He is the true Lord.” The “burning waters” surrounding this place inspired a later author’s description of “tricksy lights” in the Dead Marshes. A group traveling to this place encounters an old man’s severed head under a cliff. A man takes a hilt from this place after he beheads a corpse, whose blood (10[1])melts a (*) sword “from the days of the giants.” A journey to this place is prompted by the murder (10[1])of the (10[1])wise councilor Aeschere. Upon (10[1])receiving the sword Hrunting, a man swims down to this place to do battle with a creature who terrorized Heorot after the death of her son, a “descendant of Cain.” For 10 points, give this residence of a monster and his mother in Beowulf. ■END■