Thursday, October 26, 2006

Grendel; Beowulf Retold


We have been studying the epic Anglo Saxon story of Beowulf; the oldest story written in the English language. In the tale we've learned of the heroics of Beowulf as he fights the horrible monster Grendel.

But how would Grendel's Mamma feel?

Imagine you are Grendel's Mamma. Imagine King Hrothgar has built a huge hall on the edge of your swamp and then throws a loud all night party. When you send your son over to tell the King to pipe down he has his arm ripped off and hung from the hall as a trophy!

How would you retell the story differently? Be sure to include dialogue and detail to make your story more entertaining.
Comments:
The swamp didn't use to be this way. The all night parties. The lights and the noise. It used to be a place of shadows; home to all sorts of evil creatures: bats, rats, and slimy serpents. It was the kind of place where a Mama could raise her only son to be a proper wicked and rotten monster.
Now that King Hrothgar and his men have built Hall Herot its all a Monster's Mother can do to find a quiet slimehole. Whenl I couldn't take another night of happy singing and laughting I sent my most beloved son Grendel to quiet the party down. From across the fen I heard the screams of fright and terror. I smiled to myself thinking of the King's men wetting themselves and running away. But when Grendel didn't come home again; I knew all was not well....

What I didn't know yet was the name of my enemy...

A name that blinds me with rage when I think of it...

The name that is now sung by the King's men as if to taunt me...

His name was Beowulf!

(to be continued)
 
Grendal and his mama were living hapily ever after in there swamp and all of a sudden all these people moved in and invaded his swamp. so grendals mama sent grendal over to see if they would quiet down a little bit and they ripped his arm off and killed him so grendals mama went over to get her sons arm back and to get some respect by doing the same thing that beowulf did to grendal kill him. But when she got there beowulf killed her instead.
 
I lived a peacful life. Everyonewas afraid of us We were the rulers of the swamp. Untill that king moved in. He tore down half the swamp to build his stupid casel. He also had parties every night adn were very noisy. We were tring to get some rest so I sent my son over to the castel and tell him that we were tring to sleep. When he din't come back I went to the casel adn descovered that he had been killed. That was it.......recenge was coming their way.
 
i am grendals mother and i live in a swamp it smaells really bad and it is not that easy living there but somhow i servive and i breath off of blood bubbles there are peole that keep on comming but i just fight them off but i live but i live in a cave and i seem to live weeridley i think that i will live forever ans i have people come to my place and have partys thaer and i have fun.to be contiued
 
I was living in my swamp with my son, grendel, and the this Hrothgar moves and makes this huge castle without asking and has this huge party. So I send my Grendel over to ask them to quiet down and so they rip off his arm, kills him and hangs the arm on the wall! Then I heard this Beowolf guy had somthing to do with the muder so, when hes swimmimg I bring him under water and I fall aslep and he kills me by stranging me.
 
I was living in my swamp with my son, grendel, and the this Hrothgar moves and makes this huge castle without asking and has this huge party. So I send my Grendel over to ask them to quiet down and so they rip off his arm, kills him and hangs the arm on the wall! Then I heard this Beowolf guy had somthing to do with the muder so, when hes swimmimg I bring him under water and I fall aslep and he kills me by stranging me.
 
If I was Grendal's mama my story would go like this.
Long ago when Grendal wasn't even born yet I was so excited to find out that there would be a little bundle of joy in my life.So as the months past I got even more excited and when Grendal finally arived I was so happy to be called mama.So as the years past Grendal got bigger and bigger and finnaly he got as big as his dada.One day King Hrothgar came and built his castle,I was okay him living close to us but when the constant parties started I sent Grendal over there to tell them to quiet down down.Well, he never came back but days later I found his arm .I tried to go over there and sort things out and that didn't go so well and we got in "fight" ,bit really King Hrothgar just ran around in circles and so I left him to get his exercise and I went back to my swap and moarned.
 
grendal to go over and ask them to be a little more quiet!!!!!! They didn't get quieter but do you want to know what they did do???Thet riped off grendals arm and hung it up as a trophy!!!!!!!! Our little swamp was once calm and peaceful untill that king moved in to it and started making lots of nose

-sara smith-
 
When The king built the Hall on my land I didn't really mind. I asumed they couldn't bother me too much, and I had too much land anyway.
The first night they moved in the king threw an all-night party. When it was finaly over I wrote them a letter; not a rude letter, just one asking them to quiet down.
I got a terrable headach from the noise , so I sent my son to deliver the message, otherwize I would have taken it myself.
I later learned that one of thw wariors had killed my son. I figured he must have gotten scared. He tends to become savage when he is scared.
Never the less I wanted revenge, but it took me longer then I thought to recover from my headach. They kept throwing more and more parties, and my headachs got worse and worse. There was no way I could defeat them.
Then later a warior aproching my home; the same warior who had killed my son. I saw this as my chance for revenge. Once he was close enough I pulled him in.
Unfourtunetly I did not sucsead; he killed me, as he did my son.
Now I am cursed to wander the darkest depths of hell; utterly alone for all eternity.
 
Once upon a time,my son,Grendel,and I lived in peace in are swamp until King Hrothgar created his Hall.So I sent Grendel to destroy all the humans in the hall.Grendel went and was killed by a person I whom now fear.His name will live forever.BEOWULF!!!!Beowuld went down into the swamp looking for me waiting to Kill me.He unforuntly escaped from the Green Lights clutches. Then I went unto Beowulf and we began to fight, but he escaped and cut off my tenticle. I went to strangle him again but I had little strength and melted. I know wait up in here in Monster heaven waiting to get out of this place and go back to destroy Beowulf.
 
Once upon a time....... well me and myson gerndal were happy. living in our swamp but then these stupid humans started moving into our swamp and I had to tell those stupid humans to shut up so I sent my son gerndal to tell them to quiet down I could just see those humans wetting them selfs but then...............
 
Our home was destroyed now because of the King and his village.Grendel had enough of all the noise so i sent him to the village to tell all the village to keep it down.I heard a lot of yelling so i knew that my son was doing his job. Later on that night Grendel came home with half a arm.He told me that there wasa soilder named Beowulf that had tried to rip his arm off!!!! I was mad as frick!! I went down to the village and i found Beowulf.. i riped both his arms off and his legs. Then i left him to DIE!!!!!1 hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

THE END!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahaha
 
I used to live wih my loving son in this beautiful swamp and we kept to our selves until one day this king built a giant castle. They had big parties all night long and they were loud and annoying. Til one day I sent my son Grendel to tell them to quiet down. Then I didnt see my son for a week and I find out they took his arm off and hung it from the ceiling as a trophy. I was appalled so I went to kill the king and get my son's arm back.

t j k r b d k , your obi wan friends!
chipmonks <333
 


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