The Peace Weavers in Beowulf and GrendelQueen Wealhtheow and Queen Hygd were excellent role models for the courts in which they served. They exemplified the mannerisms and etiquette of noble people. Queen Wealhtheow showed excellent balance right from the start of both texts. He was admirable as he passed the bowl of mead around Heorot. The offering of the bowl was symbolic, as the bowl was first given to Hrothgar and then passed to Beowulf, as if she had offered him her trust. Beowulf gave Wealhtheow a guarantee that he would succeed or die in battle. After presenting Hrothgar and Beowulf with the bowl of mead, he served the Scylding, and did so as if they were his own people. She was not a Scylding, nor did she wish to be, but she never made her unhappiness, as described in Grendel, known. There aren't many details about Queen Hygd in Grendel, but from what the reader can deduce from Beowulf, she is just as much of a female role model as Queen Wealhtheow. He was young but very intelligent. Indeed King Hygelac felt intimidated by Hygd's intelligence. In both texts, Beowulf and Grendel, the main purpose of the queens is to serve the courts as "peace weavers". In Grendel, however, Queen Wealththeow is described in much more detail and has an additional purpose. The reader gains insight into a part of Grendel that is not present in Beowulf, his desire for a human, although in Beowulf and Grendel, the main purpose of the queens is to serve the courts as "peace weavers", queens also serve other purposes as role models, preservers of their kingdoms, emotional beings, motherly figures, and objects of beauty and lust. be offered as peace tokens within the noble courts. In the novel Grendel, Wealhtheow's brother, King of the Helmings, gave her to King Hrothgar to promote peace between the Helmings and the Scyldings "She had given her life for those she loved. So would any simpering, sassy woman in his court, given the right arrangement, the minimum conditions" (Grendel 102). It is ironic how she has promoted peace since her arrival because she was an essential part in keeping the peace, as the "peace weaver" in both texts. Queen Wealhtheow, however, is not the only woman in the texts who was abandoned to encourage appeasement between the feuding courts.