A legendary mead hall has been built. Called Heorot, it is a place of feasting and revelry. It's also got a really REALLY bad neighbor. The monster Grendel does not enjoy living near Heorot and ...

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 ...

Heorot Hall was where, in an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the middle of the 1st Century, the people-eating monster Grendel came for dinner until the warrior Beowulf killed it.

Beowulf, a young, valiant and strong hero, travels from his own land of the Geats (in what is now southwestern Sweden) to fight Grendel, a man-eating monster who terrorizes Heorot, the grand hall ...

KS2 English. Beowulf - Part 2. The Anglo-Saxon story of Beowulf told in 3 short animated episodes for KS2 pupils. Beowulf arrives in Denmark to fight the monster, Grendel. BBC School Radio. BBC Teach.

Beowulf corners Grendel in Heorot, a large mead hall, and rips off his arm. Beowulf then has to combat Grendel’s mother, who wants revenge.

Like many other liberal arts students of the time, I first encountered “Beowulf” in a survey course of English Literature in college.

Maria Dahvana Headley, whose new translation of “Beowulf” came out last year, wanted to build onto the thousand-year-old poem’s long history. Part of its staying power, Headly said, is how ...