Quotes

Wealthow

Do you want me to go in with you? [Beowulf and Wiglaf look at each other] Good.

Wealthow

Grendel's Mother: I see you brought me treasure. Beowulf: [To Grendel's Mother] Show yourself! What are you? Grendel's Mother: Are you the one they call Beowulf? The Bee-Wolf. The bear. Such a strong man you are with the strength of a king. The king you will one day become. Beowulf: What do you know of me, demon? Grendel's Mother: I know that underneath your glamor you're as much a monster as my son, Grendel. Beowulf: My glamor! Grendel's Mother: One needs glamor to become a king. A man like you could own the greatest tale ever sung. Your story would live on when everything now alive is dust. Beowulf... It has been a long time since a man has come to visit me. Beowulf: I need no sword to kill you. Grendel's Mother: Of course you don't my love. You took a song from me. Give me a son, brave thane. Stay with me. Love me... Love me... and I shall weave you riches... beyond imagination. I shall make you the greatest king that ever lived. As long as you hold me in your heart... and this gold

Wealthow

King Hrothgar: So you brought back the head of Grendel. What about the head of the mother? Beowulf: With her dead and cold in the bog, is it not enough to return one monster's head? King Hrothgar: Did you kill her? Beowulf: Would you like to hear the story of my struggle against this monstrous hag? King Hrothgar: She's no hag, Beowulf. We both know that. But answer me, did you kill her? Beowulf: Would I have been able to escape her, had I not? King Hrothgar: Grendel is dead. That's all that matter to me. He can bother me no more. The mother, the hag... She's not my curse, not anymore. Not anymore.