![]() ![]() ![]() The monster’s mother wants vengeance and Beowulf follows her into a deep, dark lake where he kills her. Beowulf kills Grendel by tearing his arm off. ![]() Grendel is a blood-thirsty monster who terrorises the hall at night. The manuscript is long, about 3000 lines in Old English, and is kept in the British Library and tells the story of the hero Beowulf and his battles with Grendel, Grendel’s mother and a dragon.īeowulf, from the kingdom of the Geats, in present-day Sweden, brings his warriors to help the Danish king defend his beautiful great hall from Grendel. Beowulf’s story has survived for about 1500 years, composed around the 6 th or 7 th centuries and written down in the 10 th or 11 th centuries. We have some great archaeological Anglo-Saxon finds including several hoards containing jewellery, such as the Staffordshire and Lenborough Hoards – hidden and never reclaimed – and the magnificent Sutton Hoo ship burial in Suffolk. The Anglo-Saxons have never left us: swear words, place names and the foundation of our language. ![]()
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