Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra to his father's kingdom and defeats and kills Soti and his Vikings. Although numerous sagas contain analogs to the iconic cave battle with Grendel and his mother in "Beowulf," none is closer to the Old English epic than is Hálfdan’s cave battle with Járnnefr and his wife. The saga is found in three, 15th-century vellum manuscripts, but its post-medieval popularity is evidenced by its preservation in over four dozen paper manuscripts. In the 18th century it served as the source for the first known saga forgery. "Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra" has a sequel in "Sörla saga sterka", where it becomes clear
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics in the symbolic value of such preternatural representations of sheer evil." Weinreich added that ""Beowulf," like other ancient legends, served to nourish Tolkien's imagination." John Garth, writing in "The Guardian", describes the paper as "still well worth reading, not only as an introduction to the poem, but also because it decisively changed the direction and emphasis of Beowulf scholarship. Up to that point it had been used as a quarry of linguistic, historical and archaeological detail". Garth notes that Tolkien's paper was praised by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney in the introduction to his critically acclaimed translation of "Beowulf". He