Beowulf and Grendel .

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Thanks you guys . While I am only about 90% sure it is the book I was talking about the Movie was an absolute hoot .

Grendel was great . The Village witch was a fox .
Whatever the white creature in the water and cave was sent dentistry back to the middle ages .(Wait a minute that line doesn,t work here , L:O:L )

While I am sure great liberties were taken as to the screen writers version of the story I found it well done .

The behind the scenes portion only served to bring the actors to life instead of feeling like filler .

I am still going to hunt down the book I read as a child though I doubt I will ever find the same edition .:grumpy:
 
Is this the illustration you remember?
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No mine was horizontal . L:O:L

Actually it was so long ago that I only remember its simple nature . I like your version more . Which edition/version is it from ?

I know this sounds weird . It was the first book I read aside from childrens books that had an illustration . It kinda goosebumped me as maturing from bambi to books where monsters get their arms ripped off was quite a jump .
 
Alexander Arms has come up with a pair of nifty alternatives to the lack of terminal performance issues posed by our 5.56mm in the AR-15 platform. I have an Off List Lower Reciever and am saving the bucks to do a 6.5 Grendel build up. The .50 Beowulf doesn't really suit my fancy.
 
Kevin, you ought to give the old Norse/Icelandic sagas a read, especially the Volsung saga and the Laxdaela Saga. The sagas include such things as werewolves, draugr (undead), dragons, trolls, witches, and some very intriguing stuff about shaman (presumably Saami) that could travel "out of body" for great distances, and return with geographical, etc., information that was later physically verified and historically documented. Lots of feuding and murder, great battles, tragic heroes, and stuff like that. Some of it requires a fairly high level of comprehension to fully understand and appreciate, but a lot of it reads like a historical novel with a bit of sword and scorcery thrown in the mix. Good stuff, blade friendly. :thumbup:

Sarge
 
Sarge , as a child I often ignored some classic literatue due to its flowery nature . Something akin to watching a movie having the actors burst into song and I would realise it was (cringe) a musical . L:O:L .

I have matured since then and consider poetry in a book to add spice as long as the chef doesn,t overdo it . (I don,t know if thats a mixed metaphor or a culinary disaster . ) L:O:L

Those Sagas seem like a good read . Are they not the earliest form of that kind of literature ? I am no longer a fan of horror movies or books with gratuitous horrific violence in them . The remarkable thing is :Le pacte des Loup: or Brotherhood of the Wolf: had a great deal of bloodshed in it and I thought it was superb . It may have to do with Hollywood overcharging some movies with sensation as opposed to sense . Death as opposed to depth .

It seems I am on a trip to the Library . (It may be delayed until after hunting season .) A good winters read is on the way .
 
Sutcliffe said:
Alexander Arms has come up with a pair of nifty alternatives to the lack of terminal performance issues posed by our 5.56mm in the AR-15 platform. I have an Off List Lower Reciever and am saving the bucks to do a 6.5 Grendel build up. The .50 Beowulf doesn't really suit my fancy.
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threads will do that. you'll take a big gulp of air and see what's the latest on firepower and bam! they're discussing books.
 
Listen there me boys . this is a thread on books/movies .

B:T:W: Is that .50 Beowolf anything like the Barret(sp) .50 ? L:O:L
 
You'll find that Tolkien read the sagas too ... not surprising, as he was a professor of Old English. The names of some of the dwarves will be familiar, if you've ever read "The Hobbit."

Enjoy!
 
Great thread. I'm looking at that illustrated Beowolf now Kronc. I can't imagine pulling for Grendel...



Edited to add: Um. Not what I expected. Go Cookiemonster.
 
You guys should read a book by Tom Cunliffe called "Topsail and Battleaxe." True story of a handful of folks who, inspired by reading the sagas and the old Viking histories, decided to sail from Scandinavia following the path of Erik the Red to the New World. Published in '87, I think.

Hilarious. Astonishing writing about the sea, and the people they met. An old woman in Iceland seemed to have walked out of one of the sagas herself ...

Uhm, great boat they sailed in too.
 
If you guys like retellings of the Beowulf saga, check out Grendel by John Gardener. It's told from Grendel's perspective, and it's absolutely brilliant.
 
Hey brokenhallelujah,
I had to read that for a high school English class, along with the original beowulf and I thought it was great. I don't remember much about it except the monster complaining that " this whole s--ta-s situation was his fault'".

Lagarto
 
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