His power overran the world, from the foot of my cliff to the northern sea to the impenetrable forests south and east. they hacked down trees in widening rings around their central halls and blistered the land with peasant huts and pigpen fences till the forest looked like an old dog dying of mange. they thinned out the game, killed birds for sport, set accidental fires that would burn for days. their sheep killed hedges, snipped valleys bare, and their pigs nosed up the very roots of what might have grown. –grendel, john gardner based on the passage, what is grendel’s perspective on hrothgar and his people? he admires their skills and technology. he is jealous of their power and aspires to be more like them. he believes they are weak and easily defeated. he thinks they are destructive and inconsiderate.