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.

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 ...

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

a vivid reimagining of the epic poem Beowulf, as a cautionary tale. True to the ancient myth, Grendel, a monstrous creature described as ‘mankind’s enemy’ is killed by Beowulf, but it is ...