Even something as monstrous as Grendel had a mother, and she won't rest until all of the Danes have been slain. So Beowulf dons his armor and seeks out Grendel's mother in her lair, beneath a ...

"In the early English translations it was translated for Beowulf as 'hero' and for Grendel as 'monster,' and for Grendel's mother as 'wretch of a woman' or 'hag,' " Headley says. "But it's the ...

The poem Beowulf describes Grendel’s mother in a variety of ways. First, she is called a “Devil-shaped woman,” and later King Hrothgar says that of the two monsters his “land-people” saw ...

Grendel limps back to his lair, where his mother — she has no name, so we’ll call her Grendma — watches him die. When Beowulf discovers the lair, Grendma reveals herself in the form of a ...

Who killed my son? Out of the shadows rushed Grendel’s mother Blazing with fury she let out a cry Beowulf discovered his own sword was powerless Summoned his strength and cast it aside.

Beowulf, of precarious provenance—the single surviving, crumbling manuscript bears the scorch marks of an 18th-century library fire—has traveled across a thousand years to lodge in our ...

Beowulf is about a legendary warrior who ... was able to understand the themes of the film easily. She plays the mother of Grendel, who is the last demon of the water, and one of the three main ...

It isn’t necessary to know the story of how Grendel and his mother were killed by the hero Beowulf because this novel can be read as a beautifully written story, winner of a 2023 Midwest ...

An illustration of the eponymous hero fighting the dragon, next to a manuscript of Beowulf from circa AD 1000, located in the British Library (iStock/Getty) The tale describes a battle with three ...