Read the line from Grendel. I was safe in my tree, and the men who fought were nothing to me, except of course that they talked in something akin to my language, which meant that we were, incredibly, related. This is an example of a first-person narrative showing Grendel’s perspective. first-person narrative showing Beowulf’s perspective. third-person narrative showing many perspectives. third-person narrative showing Grendel’s and Beowulf’s perspectives.