The Peace Weavers in Beowulf and GrendelQueen Wealhtheow and Queen Hygd served as excellent models for the courts in which they served. They illustrate the manners and etiquette of noble people. Queen Wealhtheow showed excellent composure from the start of both texts. She looked admirable as she 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 presenting her trust to him. Beowulf gave Wealhtheow a guarantee that he would succeed or die in battle. After presenting Hrothgar and Beowulf with the bowl of mead, she served the Scyldings, and did so as if they were her own people. She was not a Scylding and did not desire to be, but she never made her misfortune known, as Grendel describes it. There aren't many details about Queen Hygd in Grendel, but from what the reader can gather from Beowulf, she is as much of a female role model as Queen Wealhtheow. She was young but very intelligent. In fact, 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 "weavers of peace." In Grendel, however, Queen Wealththeow is described in much greater detail and serves another purpose. The reader gets a glimpse of a part of Grendel that is not present in Beowulf, his desire for a human, although in Beowulf and Grendel, the main one. The purpose of queens is to serve the courts as "weavers of peace", queens also serve other purposes as role models, curators of their kingdoms, emotional beings, mother figures, and objects of beauty and lust. It was not uncommon for women to be offered as tokens of peace within noble courts. In the novel Grendel, Wealhtheow's brother, King of the Helmings, granted it 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, thrashing woman in his yard, given the proper facility and minimal conditions” (Grendel 102). It is ironic how she promoted peace upon her arrival because she played a vital role in maintaining peace, as a “weaver”. of peace" in both texts. Queen Wealhtheow is, however, not the only woman in the texts who was abandoned to encourage appeasement between the feuding courts..