Read this passage from beowulf. then, saw the sage companions who waited with hrothgar, watching the flood, that the tossing waters turbid grew, blood-stained the mere. old men together, hoary-haired, of the hero spake; the warrior would not, they weened, again, proud of conquest, come to seek their mighty master. to many it seemed the wolf-of-the-waves had won his life. the ninth hour came. which of these words best describes the effect this passage creates?