Accompanied by his “14 brave thanes,” Beowulf (Ray Winstone) comes across the sea to slay the monster and, not incidentally, add another laurel to his own legend. He repels a Grendel attack on ...

Even before the encounter with Grendel, for example ... “with rage in his heart,” to slay the creature. After much celebration, the Beowulf of the original poem returns home and eventually ...

In a great battle Beowulf slays Grendel, whose charmed skin cannot be pierced by any blade, by wrenching his arm and shoulder from his body. Grendel flees to his home in the marshes to die.

It began as a pagan poem told around shadowy campfires about a hero fighting the monster Grendel, the monster’s mother and a dragon. Christendom’s world of saints and sinners reinvented ...

Plot: The demon-monster Grendel is terrorizing the lands of King Hrothgar of Denmark. A young warrior, Beowulf, arrives determined to slay Grendel. Beowulf fights the demon unarmed and tears off ...

While Beowulf is the one to slay her, her feminine threat must be aggressively matched; an entire army supports the hero. Grendel's mother is also a ruler, acting more like a king than a queen in ...

where Beowulf slays the monster Grendel, with the second, where he takes on a massive dragon decades later. It’s a defensible choice, but it’s a bit delusional for Zemeckis to claim that ...

Along comes the wandering hero Beowulf, who aims to slay Grendel, a civic duty he believes is best conducted in the nude. Beowulf has the arms, pecs and trunk-like thighs of Brad Pitt in peak ...

The monster, as all English majors will know, is Grendel, whom the hero Beowulf slays in the oldest extant epic poem in the English—actually Old English—language. The spears that protrude from ...

Logic does not always play a determining role in fantasy, whether 10th-century or 21st.) After Beowulf mortally wounds Grendel ... but one of his followers, he slays the creature, but at the ...

The animated telling of “Beowulf,” who rids a Danish kingdom of the feared beast Grendel, slew the box office over the weekend, giving a huge boost to 3-D films in the process. The Paramount ...

Hrunting — the H is silent, Dickey said — came from the epic poem “Beowulf”; it is the sword Beowulf uses to slay Grendel’s mother. If I had bats I’d name them Wyrmslayer and Wyrmsbane. And if you ...