Royal Mail has unveiled a set of stamps featuring mythical creatures and fabled figures from UK folklore. Designed by ...

Thane: They look like marks made by giant claws, my Lord. Beowulf: 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.

Grendel is an adaptation of the 1971 John Gardner novel of the same name, which retells the Old English epic poem Beowulf ...

The events of the poem are set in Scandanavia. 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 ...

Written sometime between 650 and 1000 C.E., “Beowulf” is the oldest epic poem in English. It depicts a swamp monster, Grendel, terrorizing a kingdom until Beowulf, a prince of The Geats ...

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 ...