Which best summarizes the events from the poem contained in these lines? "to all the earlmen after evenlight's glimmer 'neath heaven's bright hues hath hidden its glory. this my earls then urged me, the most excellent of them, carles very clever, to come and assist thee, folk-leader hrothgar; fully they knew of the strength of my body."
a. the king asked beowulf to travel to his kingdom to slay grendel.
b. beowulf's countrymen encouraged him to defeat grendel.
c. stories of grendel's strength were told throughout hrothgar's lands.
d. the most clever men in the kingdom set out to kill grendel.