On this exam, mark Y for Yes. It’s got power and depth, and two kings whose greatness is diluted by hubris, and a thrilling dragon fight, and the demon Grendel as a tortured outcast, and a naked ...

When Beowulf asks Grendel’s mother, ... The film cleverly ties Beowulf’s final monster fight to the earlier episodes with Grendel and his mother (something the original fails to do).

‘Beowulf’ is in a fight with itself. By John Horn . Nov. 15, ... Grendel’s mother, which some translators have described as a “hag” and “wretch,” is now the unfairly curvaceous Jolie ...

We learn that Grendel is not, as the original text posits, the son of the Biblical figure Cain, but Hrothgar himself. Furthermore, Beowulf succumbs to Grendel’s mother’s seductions and fathers ...

The great hero Beowulf, wrestling with the monster Grendel, split the sinews of his foe and snapped his arm off at the shoulder. Going up against the monster's mother, he slammed her to the earth ...

Beowulf & Grendel. Sturla Gunnarsson. BY Sarrah Young Published Jan 1, 2006. ... Trying to force the hand of the troll results only in humiliation for Beowulf and his band of fighting men, ...

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.

There’s something monstrous in the heart of America — literally. In Grendel, Kentucky, an upcoming series from upstart publisher Artists, Writers & Artisans, the Beowulf story gets updated and ...