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did anyone read beowulf

MyHandsBoundMyHandsBound Posts: 698
edited December 2007 in All Encompassing Trip
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I just saw the movie......what happened with the mother.... is she ever conquered in the story......
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    yes. beowulf kills her with a sword.
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  • MyHandsBoundMyHandsBound Posts: 698
    catefrances wrote:
    yes. beowulf kills her with a sword.


    in the movie she lives....
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    This made me laugh.
  • MyHandsBoundMyHandsBound Posts: 698
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    This made me laugh.


    what was funny:D
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    MyHandsBound wrote:
    in the movie she lives....

    god damn hollywood. this does not surprise me at all. i mean shit, look what they did with the illiad.


    He saw among the armour there the sword to bring him victory,
    a Giant-sword from former days: formidable were its edges,
    a warrior's admiration. This wonder of its kind
    was yet so enormous that no other man
    would be equal to bearing it in battle-play
    - it was a Giant's forge that had fashioned it so well.
    The Scylding champion, shaking with war-rage,
    caught it by its rich hilt, and, careless of his life,
    brandished its circles, and brought it down in fury
    to take her full and fairly across the neck,
    breaking the bones; the blade sheared
    through the death-doomed flesh. She fell to the ground;
    the sword was gory; he was glad at the deed.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • MyHandsBoundMyHandsBound Posts: 698
    catefrances wrote:
    god damn hollywood. this does not surprise me at all. i mean shit, look what they did with the illiad.


    He saw among the armour there the sword to bring him victory,
    a Giant-sword from former days: formidable were its edges,
    a warrior's admiration. This wonder of its kind
    was yet so enormous that no other man
    would be equal to bearing it in battle-play
    - it was a Giant's forge that had fashioned it so well.
    The Scylding champion, shaking with war-rage,
    caught it by its rich hilt, and, careless of his life,
    brandished its circles, and brought it down in fury
    to take her full and fairly across the neck,
    breaking the bones; the blade sheared
    through the death-doomed flesh. She fell to the ground;
    the sword was gory; he was glad at the deed.

    the book is always better than the movie, they say......
  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Yeah I read it about 5 million years ago for school. I always liked the name Grendel!
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  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    One of my favorites.
    I had really been looking forward to the movie but heard it was awful. :(
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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    This made me laugh.
    Ditto
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  • pjtaperpjtaper Posts: 3,020
    Read the book in highschool, LOVED IT! Saw the movie, it was really shitty, but the 3d was AMAZING!
  • answers are fatalanswers are fatal Posts: 281
    yeah i read it this year in school, and it felt like about 1/4 of the book is beowulf killing grendals mother.
  • MyHandsBoundMyHandsBound Posts: 698
    answers are fatal wrote:
    yeah i read it this year in school, and it felt like about 1/4 of the book is beowulf killing grendals mother.

    in the movie when beowulf went to kill her, she seduced him instead... she got pregnant again and had a son that turned into a dragon...when the horn returned to beowulf the dragon tried to kill everyone in the village...so beowulf eventually killed the dragon but died in the end...the ending of the movie was the mother about to seduce the newly crowned king...who was the only survior of beowulf's original army....
  • failedpersephonefailedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    MyHandsBound wrote:
    in the movie when beowulf went to kill her, she seduced him instead... she got pregnant again and had a son that turned into a dragon...when the horn returned to beowulf the dragon tried to kill everyone in the village...so beowulf eventually killed the dragon but died in the end...the ending of the movie was the mother about to seduce the newly crowned king...who was the only survior of beowulf's original army....

    wait, what??

    NO.

    um NO.

    dear god - please read the book! THAT MOVIE IS NOT THE STORY AT ALL!!

    ahhhhh!! *head explodes!*
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