The king of the Danes is beset with sorrow, as he and his men cannot stop Grendel’s attacks. Grendel attacks Heorot until “the greatest house In the world stood empty, a deserted wallstead” (145 – 146). No matter how much havoc he wreaks, however, Grendel is stopped from sitting on the throne in Heorot because he “rules in defiance of right” (144). Grendel rules in defiance of what is right because he had no cause to attack the Danes, and as such cannot sit on the throne because he is not considered worthy. Grendel’s attack on the Danes is particularly disgraceful as the Danes had done nothing to provoke him and yet he attacks them viciously, in their own hall, for twelve…