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.

Irish poet Seamus Heaney's 1999 translation became ... DC Entertainment Beowulf tells the story of how the monster Grendel terrorises a Danish stronghold until the Swedish Beowulf arrives.

Writer-director Robert D. Krzykowski adapted the book, a modern classic that retells the old English epic poem Beowulf from ...