Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-11458474-20130926235435/@comment-25074378-20150131224736

I hate to add to the necroing of a post, but...

I must say that I've found this all rather interesting. I've not read Beowulf in quite some time, and the version that I did read was rather different from what apparently is the true poem. From what I can gather, unless Bethesda explicitly says otherwise, the evidence is a bit overwhelming that the Greybeards are a reference to Beowulf, if not an outright adaptation of them. I get the whole policy thing on speculation and whatnot, but at this point it's like saying it's speculation that the sky is blue until god comes out and confirms it. And even putting it as trivia or an easter egg doesn't affect the lore of the Greybeards in any way, so there's no real harm in it at the end of the day.