The lessons drawn out of these encounters offer hope to contemporary audiences, as they must have for those gathered around firesides 1,500 years ago, and Kyd does a marvelous job making them stick.

To portray the fight between Beowulf and the monster Grendel, from the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, he had to "figure out how to have two figures in a space that works on a small scale" and "wanted ...

Who's got the biggest boast of them all? Beowulf... it's Beowulf. I mean who else has fought that many sea monsters and lived to fight Grendel? #Shorts #Beowulf #History N.C. Supreme Court halts ...

Directed by Icelandic-Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson, Beowulf & Grendel borrows its plot from the Old English epic poem of anonymous authorship, Beowulf.The iconic piece of literature has ...

The first comic based on Beowulf, called "Beowulf: Dragon Slayer," in 1975, for instance, illustrates Grendel's mother as a weak, wolf-like humanoid. She doesn't even get to battle Beowulf.

The flesh-rending fiend Grendel. His demonic mother. A flame-breathing dragon. The superhuman Viking warrior who battles them all. The real hero of this story is screenwriter Roger Avary (Oscar ...