Grendel searches for reason and purpose in the universe and is baffled and enchanted by the shaper's words early in the text. What does he find enchanting and baffling in this chapter and how might this new thing relate to the shaper's words?

Hmm ... I think that Grendel's revalation offers a type of transition between Grendel's innocent and ignorant childhood and his adulthood as a student of philosophy. In the vast span of time the entirety of mankind's history register's little more than a brief flash.