Grendel's mother is way more hardcore than Grendel is. She is amazing with a sword. She's really strong and Beowulf has to get very armored up in order to fight her — and he kind of only wins by ...

And so, Beowulf succeeds in slaying Grendel’s mother on her home turf, even though she is full of fury and helped by a bevy of underwater sea monsters. And here is the problem with Robert ...

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.

The name used to mean little to those who weren't studying Anglo-Saxon literature. But now Beowulf is big box-office. As a new film about the macho monster-slayer opens, Paul Vallely looks for the ...

The name Grendel suggests a monster of some sort, as it's the name of the creature that opposes the hero Beowulf in the ancient tale. He is described as "a creature of darkness, exiled from ...

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. To do so he dives into the depths of a dreadful lake ...

For too long the Old English poem has long been perceived as a "masculine text," says Maria Dahvana Headley. Her new adaptation is told from the perspective of Grendel's mother.

The word is aglæca/æglæca — no one's entirely sure how to pronounce it – and, as Headley explains, that same word is used to describe Beowulf and his three antagonists: Grendel, Grendel's ...

There's a vitally important word in the epic tale of Beowulf and, according to Maria Dahvana Headley, it's been translated incorrectly for a very long time. The word is aglæca/æglæca — no one's ...