#grendel's mother

[savebatsartedition]

Beowulf Anime Opening (700 frame fully colored animation.)

Blood and possible eyestrain warning!

If this flops I will be so sad.

All designs, choreography and animation by ‪@savebatsfromscratch‬ (me) in my own interpretation of the text.

I believe that I will be making a video explaining all my creative choices in this video, so stick around for when that happens. :3

Okay, now you see why I couldn't do any of my dang map parts for like forever. 💀

(Credits under the cut.)

Song: Manic WarLord Mother by HoliznaCC0 The song can be found here, it's free to use music and the artist has some other good ones!: X (Btw there are no lyrics of this song available online. I’m doing my best with what I can hear but I cannot guarantee that they are accurate.)

Program: Turbowarp Bitmap Quotes: Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf. :)

I am not exaggerating when I say this took me forever to make. (Two months with MANY six hour days of animation in them, not to mention my design work and actual interpretation work of the text.)

[lesbianshepard]

The cave mouth shines By pure force of will I look down on the world From the top of this lonesome hill And you can run, and run some more From here all the way to Singapore But I will carry you home in my teeth In the great hall you drink red wine You chew meat off the bone I beat down the new path to the castle I come naked and alone I laid my son on the bier, I burned the wreath Fire overhead, water underneath You can stand up or you can run You and I both know what you've done And I will carry you home I will carry you home I will carry you home in my teeth

[shortterm-emory]

Been listening to The Mountain Goats again

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Grendel('s Mother)

[bedpolls]

Grendel’s mother from Beowulf

Please reblog for a larger sample size.

An illustration of Grendel's mother by J. R. Skelton from the 1908 Stories of Beowulf.

[apollo-elias]

Hi all! My final project for college was this labor of love I spent about a year on. It's inspired by The Ninth Hour (https://www.ninthhourmusical.com/) which is criminally underrated.

Basically, it's a four minute long animated storyboard following Grendel post his final fight with Beowulf. I put a lot of work into it, and so please enjoy!

(Vocal performance by Shayfer James, lyrics by Shayfer James and Kate Douglas)

[momachan]

"I'm Robin the Boy Wonder. -Whereas I'm Robin, the even more wondruos Girl Wonder. And you're nicked. -Nicked? -What can I say? I'm a fan of british cop patois."

Batman Vs. Bigby! A Wolf In Gotham (2021). "Chapter Six: Wild Animals."

[marytanager]

your honor, my son may have eaten 30 warriors in their sleep, but in his defense, he's a growing boy

[tmglineaday]

I will carry you home in my teeth

[doctorskelegoats]

Grendel's Mother is, from beginning to end, a song about resurrection beasts (which has some interesting implications about Beowulf as an intertext). Just listen to it, seriously. Artist credit, as per watermark, Briarwick

[originaljediinjeans]

Fifteen years ago last month, I read Beowulf with my English class. The teacher said for extra credit we could come up with our own illustrations of Grendel. I created Grendel below in oil pastel and ended up using it in my AP art portfolio.

I recently decided I should do a follow-up of Grendel's mother. Here it is from when I finished it a few months ago: the original Karen from the black lagoon.

(note: this version of the scan didn't get the bottom: she's standing on the threshold of Heorot with a dead warrior lying at her feet)

Happy Halloween!

[john-gosh-darnielle]

in the great hall you drink red wine

[attention-all-pickpockets]

" you can stand up, or you can run

you and i both know what you've done

and i will carry you home

i will carry you home

i will carry you home in my teeth "

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

So my Viking Mythology prof informed the class, in response to my question of (to paraphrase) "what the FUCK are Disir" that Disir, whatever they are (we aren't quite sure), had a more specific role than Norns or Valkyries in that "they dealt with the deaths of kings and heroes"

....MORE TO FOLLOW SOON

[berattelse]

[...] The qualities we hail as heroic in Western culture -- courage and fortitude, selflessness and nobility, steadiness of mind and will -- are not unique to men. Arguably, they're not even characteristic. But in the male-dominated myth, folklore, and literature that defines our culture, they've been annexed as "masculine" traits. We're still struggling to create or consume stories about valorous women, unless they also display the "feminine" virtues: passive sex appeal and fragility that requires rescue. In a hero, these are flaws. Thus, any heroine who tries to embody both contains the seeds of her own undoing. The female hero can hoist up the shackles of femininity and take them with her on adventures, but that's not the same as breaking free. [...] In college, I was a particular fan of Edmund Spenser's "martial maid" Britomart, who gets to wear armor and carry a spear and go on quests and even rescue maidens -- but eventually, even Britomart gallops back to her role as a princess, a wife, and the mother of a race of noble Britons. Her whole mission, in general, has been to find the man she glimpsed in a magic mirror and fell in love with. The rescuing damsels part was just a side quest. [...] And if the heroine truly slips the constraints that her femininity is supposed to place on her, the very heroic virtues she embodies often mutate into monstrosity. In the Old English epic poem Beowulf, the eponymous male hero is described as an aglæca, a word for which we do not know the exact meaning but which is usually translated as something like "hero" or "warrior". Beowulf's antagonist, the monster Grendel, also gets described as an aglæca, which in his case is usually glossed as "demon" or "monster" or something similar. What the two have in common is the sense of being awe-inspiring or formidible, so that's probably more or less what aglæca means. But the word has a feminine form, aglæcwif, and the ancient text contains an aglæcwif too: Grendel's mother. There is no abiguity to this word, not in the way it's come down to us; aglæcwif is translated as "monster-woman," "troll-lady," "wretch," or "hag." In other contexts, "wif" (which is also attached to other descriptors of Grendel's mother) specifically denotes a human woman, and yet -- like it's not indignity enough that she's always called "Grendel's mother," as if the bards were Grendel's schoolmates who didn't realize mothers had names -- the aglæcwif is assumed to be subhuman and bestial. She's just as much an aglæca as Beowulf, and just as much a wif as the other human women to which that refers, but the combination inspires not awe but horror. The monstrousness of Grendel's mother, the factor that makes her a hag or a troll or a wretch, comes from her stepping outside the slim strictures of womanhood into the realm of aglæca, of formidability and awe. In another world, she would have been a hero.

Zimmerman, Jess. Introduction to Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology. Beacon Press, 2021.

[my-own-lilypad]

I left this place forever, but forever is over. Now I'm coming home again.

The Mere Wife

Maria Dahvana Headley