Extra History. Beowulf v. Grendel - Dawn of Heorot. Posted: May 20, 2025 | Last updated: May 20, 2025. A legendary mead hall has been built. Called Heorot, it is a place of feasting and revelry.

In The Legacy of Heorot, by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes (Simon and Schuster, 352 pp., $17.95), 200 men and women scientists work to colonize Tau Ceti Four–a planet light years ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

KS2 English. Beowulf - Part 2. The Anglo-Saxon story of Beowulf told in 3 short animated episodes for KS2 pupils. Resources to support study of Beowulf. BBC School Radio. BBC Teach.

Beowulf returns to Heorot where he is hailed by Hrothgar who gives him land and many other honors. Finally, an aged Beowulf, who has become king of the Geats, confronts a third enemy—a dragon.

After “twelve snow seasons,” however, Beowulf comes to the aid of Hrothgar, once “News went global.” While the arc is familiar from the beginning, Headley’s take is current, her language ...