So Beowulf dons his armor and seeks out Grendel's mother in her lair, beneath a fetid lake filled with water like acid and so deep no human has ever seen the bottom. Extra History Posted: May 20 ...

But the transition to seriousness and concern is quick: When Kyd introduces Beowulf’s backstory — of how, driven by nothing more than jealousy, the monster Grendel repeatedly attacked and killed the ...

Beowulf thus slays Grendel, forcing the monsters mother to seek revenge. Gunnarssons film goes a step further by introducing four new characters (Grendel's father, Grendel's son, a witch named ...

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 ...

When Beowulf arrives, he not only agrees to slay the monster, but do it unarmed. Grendel finally attacks the hall during a celebration, and true to his boast, Beowulf defeats Grendel. Beowulf ...

he says after Beowulf’s defeat of Grendel, as Hrothgar rains gifts down ... looking for someone to slay, someone to pay in pain for her heart’s loss. Those scribes who recorded “Beowulf ...