Still, Butler's Beowulf is a conflicted one. He seeks justice and revenge against the monster Grendel for his attacks on Hrothgar (Stellan Skarsgård) and his people, but his attraction to the ...

They must be the work of Grendel. Hrothgar: Beowulf - I am Hrothgar! You are welcome in our land but you have come at a sad time. We are under attack! Our people dying; we have a terrible enemy.

Hrothgar - King of the Danes - builds a mead hall called Heorot but comes under attack from a monster called Grendel. Beowulf, a prince of Geatland, hears of the Danes’ suffering and sails to ...