When Gilgamesh first meets Enkidu, they fight and make up. Most epic poems start with some kind of fight between the two characters. They have a ton of reasons to fight in old poems. However, this is a different kind of fight. Neither of them die. Instead of this being the kind of fight that kicks off the adventure, this fight kicks off a friendship.
According to Schmoop (SPOILER ALERT!), Enkidu is a third human and two-thirds beast. The first time Enkidu and Gilgamesh meet, he’s considered the scarier of the two. There’s no two-cents or double looks about it. The fight is rather nasty - as epic poem fights usually are - but they both come out no worse for wear in the end of the fight.
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