According to their own legend, reported by the mid-6th-century Gothic historian Jordanes, the Goths originated in southern Scandinavia<span> and crossed in three ships under their king Berig to the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, where they settled after defeating the Vandals and other Germanic peoples in that area.</span>
The best answer for this question would be:
Alvarez grappled with the issue of writing a novel about a dangerous subject.
A central idea focuses on the dominant impression of a story in which a general truth of the story is found within it.
Personification- it's when you add a human-like characteristic to an object or animal.
I think it's A. It is definally not the climax as this happens when Beowulf kills the monster. It's not the resolution either as it is the first part of the text. Also, exposition seems a little unrelated.
