1 00:02:56,301 --> 00:02:57,761 Grendel. 2 00:03:03,183 --> 00:03:05,435 Poppy. 3 00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:22,638 Poppy. 4 00:08:15,996 --> 00:08:20,292 Let this great hall tell the world 5 00:08:20,334 --> 00:08:23,795 no man stands above the Danes. 6 00:08:23,837 --> 00:08:28,133 All we look upon is ours. 7 00:08:28,175 --> 00:08:33,305 Hrothgar, much-loved king of the Danes, 8 00:08:33,347 --> 00:08:35,474 Under Odin's eye 9 00:08:35,516 --> 00:08:39,603 I plot you lucky on all paths that leave this hall. 10 00:09:14,972 --> 00:09:18,642 May all those who cross these steps 11 00:09:18,684 --> 00:09:22,354 find a happy heart. 12 00:10:03,604 --> 00:10:05,147 Olaf? 13 00:10:14,531 --> 00:10:17,201 Olaf? Thal? 14 00:11:10,504 --> 00:11:12,631 Where were you when all this happened? 15 00:11:12,673 --> 00:11:14,758 Asleep. 16 00:11:17,219 --> 00:11:20,097 I'd had some beers. 17 00:11:22,182 --> 00:11:25,811 What fucking thing was that? 18 00:13:07,079 --> 00:13:11,542 Good day. 19 00:13:16,338 --> 00:13:18,715 I'd owe much to know my whereabouts. 20 00:13:18,757 --> 00:13:22,261 Fish Beach. 21 00:13:22,302 --> 00:13:25,347 Likely I'm the only one who named it that. 22 00:13:25,389 --> 00:13:27,975 It's where we get fish. 23 00:13:30,769 --> 00:13:33,397 - I'm Beowulf. - Beowulf? 24 00:13:33,438 --> 00:13:35,399 Great Beowulf the what? 25 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:38,151 The eel meal? 26 00:13:43,991 --> 00:13:48,871 You've not had another wash-up like myself 27 00:13:48,912 --> 00:13:51,832 by the name of Breca? 28 00:13:51,874 --> 00:13:54,835 We were out hunting walrus 29 00:13:54,877 --> 00:13:56,962 a couple of days ago. 30 00:13:57,004 --> 00:13:59,590 This storm came up and ate our boat. 31 00:13:59,631 --> 00:14:03,927 Sorry, this is just you coming in now? 32 00:14:03,969 --> 00:14:05,179 Yeah. 33 00:14:06,889 --> 00:14:10,350 Have you ever swum in the open sea? 34 00:14:11,685 --> 00:14:14,688 I leave that to my boats. 35 00:14:14,730 --> 00:14:16,440 Am I right to think you mock me? 36 00:14:16,481 --> 00:14:19,151 Can't see much life in that. 37 00:14:19,193 --> 00:14:22,487 Do you do this a lot? 38 00:14:22,529 --> 00:14:25,657 - I take what comes. - Good. 39 00:14:25,699 --> 00:14:29,077 Then you have no qualms if supper tastes like you. 40 00:14:31,079 --> 00:14:33,290 Eat... 41 00:14:33,332 --> 00:14:35,876 a bit of yourself. 42 00:14:40,422 --> 00:14:43,842 So what's it like being a hero, 43 00:14:43,884 --> 00:14:47,012 quelling things with axes 44 00:14:47,054 --> 00:14:48,972 and that sword of yours? 45 00:14:49,014 --> 00:14:51,767 In what? On account of bloody madness? 46 00:14:53,477 --> 00:14:56,230 In truth, I don't get all that mad. 47 00:15:15,749 --> 00:15:20,003 So a hero, eh? 48 00:15:20,045 --> 00:15:22,422 A hero for supper. 49 00:15:22,464 --> 00:15:25,217 Don't my shit shine? 50 00:15:25,259 --> 00:15:28,428 I'm in your debt. 51 00:15:28,470 --> 00:15:31,265 I'm in the fish's. 52 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,854 One of these days they'll come for theirs. 53 00:15:49,783 --> 00:15:51,743 The winds were kind. 54 00:15:51,785 --> 00:15:56,039 No storm waylaid Sword-Wolf on his hard walk home. 55 00:15:57,166 --> 00:16:01,879 None in Geatland held so strong the love of kin as Beowulf. 56 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,174 But coming home, he heard the tale... 57 00:16:05,215 --> 00:16:08,594 friends to the west slept with slaughter. 58 00:16:08,635 --> 00:16:12,264 A troll drummed death upon the Danes. 59 00:16:12,306 --> 00:16:16,059 Great Beowulf alone had bested bears 60 00:16:16,101 --> 00:16:18,854 thought fearless in their mood for men. 61 00:16:18,896 --> 00:16:20,856 But now he brought 62 00:16:20,898 --> 00:16:22,941 a half score more Geat swords 63 00:16:22,983 --> 00:16:25,402 to swing against this thing. 64 00:16:25,444 --> 00:16:29,281 - Let's hear the names. - Aye. 65 00:16:29,323 --> 00:16:31,325 Breca the Loud... 66 00:16:31,366 --> 00:16:34,828 ...ripe from sea deeds, 67 00:16:34,870 --> 00:16:37,706 lost no sun in hoisting sword... 68 00:16:37,748 --> 00:16:40,626 Hoisting swords? He couldn't hoist his own sail. 69 00:16:40,667 --> 00:16:43,504 ...while Hondscioh, 70 00:16:43,545 --> 00:16:47,299 Queller of Puffins 71 00:16:47,341 --> 00:16:49,551 and Beer, 72 00:16:49,593 --> 00:16:52,054 shook his shield to shake the world. 73 00:16:52,095 --> 00:16:55,057 No, just on that scum troll's head. 74 00:16:57,351 --> 00:16:59,353 Beowulf. 75 00:17:06,944 --> 00:17:10,239 Well as we've done these last few years... 76 00:17:12,199 --> 00:17:14,952 this sail holds grim bliss for me. 77 00:17:14,993 --> 00:17:18,831 A thing that takes 200 in arms... 78 00:17:20,207 --> 00:17:22,626 Is no small thing. 79 00:17:22,668 --> 00:17:24,628 But I will see Valhalla 80 00:17:24,670 --> 00:17:27,047 or that thing's head on a pole... 81 00:17:28,757 --> 00:17:31,176 ...so that Danes might say, 82 00:17:31,218 --> 00:17:33,011 "Geats don't wield words 83 00:17:33,053 --> 00:17:35,889 where swords speak truer." 84 00:17:42,980 --> 00:17:47,025 Great as our own shield king is, 85 00:17:47,067 --> 00:17:50,112 there's another near as kin to me. 86 00:17:52,322 --> 00:17:55,784 None bleed for a better king than Hrothgar. 87 00:17:55,826 --> 00:17:58,620 I'd die happy loved as he. 88 00:17:58,662 --> 00:18:02,875 But we live happy even now. 89 00:18:02,916 --> 00:18:05,752 So... 90 00:18:05,794 --> 00:18:09,006 Beowulf goes at dawn to the Danes. 91 00:18:09,047 --> 00:18:11,216 All you who go along, 92 00:18:11,258 --> 00:18:13,552 keep us proud! 93 00:18:16,930 --> 00:18:18,557 If you can, find Hondscioh a wife. 94 00:18:18,599 --> 00:18:20,934 Our sheep have had enough. 95 00:19:51,024 --> 00:19:53,318 Troll! 96 00:20:06,039 --> 00:20:12,671 Troll! 97 00:20:12,713 --> 00:20:15,132 I call you out! 98 00:20:18,343 --> 00:20:29,730 Troll! 99 00:20:33,192 --> 00:20:35,569 Meet me if you dare 100 00:20:35,611 --> 00:20:37,905 and fight me now! 101 00:20:37,946 --> 00:20:40,365 Do you hear me, creep? 102 00:20:40,407 --> 00:20:43,076 Creep, creep. 103 00:21:40,259 --> 00:21:43,136 Are you wounded? 104 00:21:43,178 --> 00:21:45,556 The thing wouldn't fight. 105 00:21:45,597 --> 00:21:47,599 It spared me to witness this. 106 00:21:47,641 --> 00:21:51,395 Then get up off your ass with your thanes in sight. 107 00:21:51,436 --> 00:21:54,147 - This is no ground for a king. - Oh, you're wrong. 108 00:21:54,189 --> 00:21:57,693 For a king who has had his balls hauled up his guts, it is the ground... 109 00:21:59,862 --> 00:22:03,323 where all the broken-bone wretches are flung to death. 110 00:22:03,365 --> 00:22:05,784 And Valhalla. 111 00:22:05,826 --> 00:22:08,662 I don't know. 112 00:22:11,874 --> 00:22:15,669 Is that the look of a man going happily up to the feast 113 00:22:15,711 --> 00:22:18,088 or down to the worms? 114 00:22:18,130 --> 00:22:19,965 You talk like a madman. 115 00:22:20,007 --> 00:22:22,634 No, just like the Danish king of daylight! 116 00:22:22,676 --> 00:22:25,137 Get up now. Or do we bury you here? 117 00:22:25,179 --> 00:22:27,431 Oh, is that your wish? 118 00:22:33,812 --> 00:22:37,524 "With your thanes in sight"? 119 00:22:37,566 --> 00:22:39,985 Whose wife would you have me be? 120 00:23:35,707 --> 00:23:38,168 That's one shiny sword. 121 00:23:41,255 --> 00:23:43,549 I'm told you're the Danes' king. 122 00:23:43,590 --> 00:23:45,425 Canute wishes you well. 123 00:23:46,927 --> 00:23:49,137 Celt, you're a ways from home. 124 00:23:49,179 --> 00:23:53,058 I am, but safe with the sword of Christ. 125 00:23:53,100 --> 00:23:54,560 Father Brendan. 126 00:23:54,601 --> 00:23:57,938 Christ, eh? 127 00:23:57,980 --> 00:24:00,232 Heard of him. 128 00:24:00,274 --> 00:24:02,025 He ever have much luck with trolls? 129 00:24:02,067 --> 00:24:05,487 I am of the thought they never crossed paths. 130 00:24:05,529 --> 00:24:07,406 But if you're willing to bow before Christ, 131 00:24:07,447 --> 00:24:09,992 you shall feel the blessing of his great strength. 132 00:24:10,033 --> 00:24:12,744 My gods don't ask me to bow. 133 00:24:12,786 --> 00:24:15,497 And nor should they dare if they won't protect you. 134 00:24:17,166 --> 00:24:20,294 To face God's foes is an honor. 135 00:24:20,335 --> 00:24:22,588 I've come to drive this evil out. 136 00:24:22,629 --> 00:24:24,590 With your stick? 137 00:24:24,631 --> 00:24:26,258 With the fire of Heaven! 138 00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:28,927 Well, if your heaven's on fire you'd better look to that. 139 00:24:30,137 --> 00:24:32,431 You leave me on a dish for the troll then. 140 00:24:32,472 --> 00:24:35,017 Leave me. And if I don't see man's dawn, 141 00:24:35,058 --> 00:24:38,145 and I shall see God's! I shall see God... 142 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:02,669 Selma, should I fear for my husband? 143 00:25:09,259 --> 00:25:11,178 If you've got nothing better to do. 144 00:25:11,220 --> 00:25:13,222 Sweet, don't play the bitch with me. 145 00:25:13,263 --> 00:25:15,432 I don't ask much and I don't ask often. 146 00:25:15,474 --> 00:25:18,060 No one dares dirty your name around me. 147 00:25:18,101 --> 00:25:21,313 Nor yours around me. 148 00:25:29,363 --> 00:25:32,032 Hrothgar dies happy... 149 00:25:32,074 --> 00:25:34,493 in his sleep. 150 00:25:34,535 --> 00:25:36,537 That's a lift. 151 00:25:44,628 --> 00:25:46,713 Selma, 152 00:25:46,755 --> 00:25:49,299 I could find a place for you inside. 153 00:25:52,219 --> 00:25:54,721 We chose our beds a long time back. 154 00:26:22,749 --> 00:26:23,876 Back! 155 00:26:23,917 --> 00:26:26,253 Spread out, men. 156 00:26:27,713 --> 00:26:29,715 Hold there! 157 00:26:29,756 --> 00:26:31,592 As you wish. 158 00:26:31,633 --> 00:26:33,093 Is this land Dane? 159 00:26:33,135 --> 00:26:35,095 It is! And you're not! 160 00:26:35,137 --> 00:26:38,182 Unless you're ripe for a shower of arrows, 161 00:26:38,223 --> 00:26:39,808 you tell who you are! 162 00:26:39,850 --> 00:26:41,768 Two blows from this, 163 00:26:41,810 --> 00:26:44,438 and 50 men will be on this beach 164 00:26:44,479 --> 00:26:46,231 before your next breath! 165 00:26:46,273 --> 00:26:47,900 50 birds maybe. 166 00:26:47,941 --> 00:26:51,361 Is that then your word? 167 00:26:51,403 --> 00:26:53,405 I'm Beowulf. 168 00:26:55,741 --> 00:26:57,743 Beowulf the Geat? 169 00:26:57,784 --> 00:26:59,411 Aw, here we go. 170 00:26:59,453 --> 00:27:03,040 We come as friends to Hrothgar. 171 00:27:12,257 --> 00:27:14,468 Well, we welcome friends. 172 00:27:14,510 --> 00:27:17,137 Bring what you need. 173 00:27:17,179 --> 00:27:19,473 I'll have men look to your ship. 174 00:27:51,547 --> 00:27:53,882 Welcome to Daneland. 175 00:28:04,852 --> 00:28:08,689 By Thor, they have the spark of cows. 176 00:28:19,449 --> 00:28:21,160 Who's that? 177 00:28:21,201 --> 00:28:24,413 Selma. A witch. 178 00:28:24,454 --> 00:28:27,291 The happy would keep a boat-length from her. 179 00:28:27,332 --> 00:28:30,210 - Happiness isn't everything. - She sees people's deaths. 180 00:28:47,561 --> 00:28:49,188 That is one beer hall. 181 00:28:49,229 --> 00:28:52,191 If you like to drink with the ghosts. 182 00:28:54,818 --> 00:28:57,070 Beowulf! 183 00:29:00,282 --> 00:29:02,868 Oh, my little Beowulf! 184 00:29:03,869 --> 00:29:06,121 Nobody tells me anything! 185 00:29:10,167 --> 00:29:12,044 Ha! 186 00:29:12,085 --> 00:29:14,671 I somehow think of you as smaller. 187 00:29:14,713 --> 00:29:16,965 I was eight when I left. 188 00:29:17,007 --> 00:29:20,093 How you've grown. 189 00:29:21,845 --> 00:29:24,723 I'm sorry. We didn't mean to wake you. 190 00:29:24,765 --> 00:29:27,017 Wake me? 191 00:29:29,811 --> 00:29:33,232 I'm a grief-crippled king, half drunk in the middle of the afternoon. 192 00:29:33,273 --> 00:29:36,860 What's there to wake? 193 00:29:36,902 --> 00:29:40,113 By the gods, it's good to see you. 194 00:29:45,661 --> 00:29:47,663 Eh? Eh? 195 00:29:53,085 --> 00:29:55,212 Do you think you need a beer? 196 00:29:55,254 --> 00:29:57,673 - Oh yeah. - Yeah. 197 00:30:26,994 --> 00:30:30,247 If Geats were seeking a wife, 198 00:30:30,289 --> 00:30:34,001 this room would hold better hope than most. 199 00:30:34,042 --> 00:30:37,379 - So many. - Widows. 200 00:30:38,505 --> 00:30:41,300 Widows far too early. 201 00:30:45,679 --> 00:30:48,682 Fine. 202 00:30:49,683 --> 00:30:53,937 Ho! Ho! 203 00:31:04,823 --> 00:31:07,075 Uh... 204 00:31:37,105 --> 00:31:39,733 With my king I welcome you all. 205 00:31:47,991 --> 00:31:50,285 We can never forget this gift. 206 00:32:13,433 --> 00:32:17,104 From this night on, the only walking flesh 207 00:32:17,145 --> 00:32:21,149 this troll feasts on will be its own. 208 00:32:23,777 --> 00:32:27,114 With the morning your curse 209 00:32:27,156 --> 00:32:29,283 will be less than a shadow. 210 00:32:31,618 --> 00:32:36,248 Well, maybe not less, 211 00:32:36,290 --> 00:32:39,793 but I mean to hold in my hand 212 00:32:39,835 --> 00:32:42,212 the head that by my sword 213 00:32:42,254 --> 00:32:45,883 no more steers a dead troll body! 214 00:32:48,886 --> 00:32:51,096 We hoist a shield now, 215 00:32:51,138 --> 00:32:53,098 drive that hunger 216 00:32:53,140 --> 00:32:56,351 back down its mouth! 217 00:32:56,393 --> 00:32:58,604 Oh, it can chew on its tongue. 218 00:32:58,645 --> 00:33:02,733 It can chew on its own stinking stone of a heart. 219 00:33:02,774 --> 00:33:05,694 But no more deaths! 220 00:33:05,736 --> 00:33:08,447 - No more! - No! 221 00:33:08,489 --> 00:33:11,783 We mean to put an end to this fiend. 222 00:33:11,825 --> 00:33:14,953 - Yes! - That's what others vowed! 223 00:33:14,995 --> 00:33:16,663 Unferth! 224 00:33:18,332 --> 00:33:20,417 By your will, dear queen, 225 00:33:20,459 --> 00:33:24,254 we're wiser in knowing the hearts of those who tangled with the thing. 226 00:33:24,296 --> 00:33:27,007 Those are dead. 227 00:33:30,761 --> 00:33:33,514 I don't brag of wrestling with it. 228 00:33:35,682 --> 00:33:38,977 Nor of being able to kill it. 229 00:33:39,019 --> 00:33:40,646 The troll broke down these doors 230 00:33:40,687 --> 00:33:45,317 with 20 Danish warriors sleeping inside. 231 00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:49,530 What gives 13 Geats better hope? 232 00:33:51,198 --> 00:33:54,117 We won't be sleeping. 233 00:33:56,119 --> 00:33:58,455 Unferth! 234 00:33:58,497 --> 00:34:00,582 Sit... 235 00:34:02,709 --> 00:34:04,878 or find your guts in a dish. 236 00:34:16,056 --> 00:34:21,019 Now, before the night must sharpen us, 237 00:34:21,061 --> 00:34:24,147 play, drink. 238 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,030 No. 239 00:34:39,663 --> 00:34:43,041 Since it began, we've had Swedes, Saxons, even Slavs 240 00:34:43,083 --> 00:34:45,085 coming to see how weak we were. 241 00:34:48,922 --> 00:34:51,717 Yeah, I know. 242 00:34:51,758 --> 00:34:54,261 I look like walrus shit. 243 00:34:54,303 --> 00:34:56,972 Comes of fighting things you can't. 244 00:34:57,014 --> 00:34:59,975 - All bad dreams end. - Hmm. 245 00:35:00,017 --> 00:35:02,978 We'll see you in the morning for herring and egg. 246 00:35:03,020 --> 00:35:05,689 Herring and egg. 247 00:35:08,275 --> 00:35:10,694 You know, if there's anything you need to tell me about it, 248 00:35:10,736 --> 00:35:13,447 now would be the time. 249 00:35:17,701 --> 00:35:20,245 I'll stay here 250 00:35:20,287 --> 00:35:22,581 amongst you. 251 00:35:25,459 --> 00:35:27,878 We'll bring you the head. 252 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,631 We'll throw it in with the herring and egg. 253 00:39:12,102 --> 00:39:14,104 Priest... 254 00:39:15,689 --> 00:39:18,108 where did you spend the night? 255 00:39:20,694 --> 00:39:23,322 Why was such a daft wretch spared? 256 00:39:23,363 --> 00:39:26,074 That's not what he asked. 257 00:39:27,826 --> 00:39:31,205 Wise king, you must know the name of Clovis. 258 00:39:31,246 --> 00:39:32,873 - The Frank? - The Frank. 259 00:39:32,915 --> 00:39:35,292 Yes yes. The Frank, 260 00:39:35,334 --> 00:39:38,712 The Christian sword of a land 10 times what the Danes hold dear. 261 00:39:38,754 --> 00:39:41,965 - He's dead. - Yes, 10 years now, 262 00:39:42,007 --> 00:39:45,219 but not before he saw God's grace. 263 00:39:45,260 --> 00:39:46,970 The Visigoths of Aquitaine, 264 00:39:47,012 --> 00:39:49,014 The Romans under Syagrius, 265 00:39:49,056 --> 00:39:51,475 Burgundians, Allemandes... all fell before him. 266 00:39:51,517 --> 00:39:53,644 And all because he had God's ear. 267 00:39:53,685 --> 00:39:56,522 As I recall he also had 1000 swords, 268 00:39:56,563 --> 00:39:58,774 neighbors soft on wine and pork 269 00:39:58,815 --> 00:40:00,651 and no ice on his rivers. 270 00:40:00,692 --> 00:40:04,363 - And no fucking trolls. - And no fucking trolls! 271 00:40:04,404 --> 00:40:07,866 My skinny hand can only bless, 272 00:40:07,908 --> 00:40:10,077 but trust me, 273 00:40:10,118 --> 00:40:12,871 this thing shall meet its end in striking me... 274 00:40:14,790 --> 00:40:17,292 or those of mine. 275 00:40:21,088 --> 00:40:23,549 Madness has its wonders. 276 00:40:23,590 --> 00:40:26,760 The Celt sat straight in the path of the thing 277 00:40:26,802 --> 00:40:28,303 and was not touched. 278 00:40:28,345 --> 00:40:31,181 The Celt held no sword. 279 00:40:31,223 --> 00:40:32,891 Perhaps the thing hates weapons. 280 00:40:32,933 --> 00:40:34,935 Well, your men were armed. 281 00:40:34,977 --> 00:40:38,897 True. Others here in arms have been spared. 282 00:40:38,939 --> 00:40:42,568 I've been waiting for Odin to bring me my pith. 283 00:40:42,609 --> 00:40:44,987 He hasn't. 284 00:40:45,028 --> 00:40:46,947 In his wisdom. 285 00:41:46,006 --> 00:41:48,550 This is where the blood trails led. 286 00:41:52,971 --> 00:41:56,517 I tell you, this troll must be one tough prick... 287 00:41:56,558 --> 00:41:59,686 do this climb every night after supper. 288 00:42:25,712 --> 00:42:27,673 Why don't you blow your horn now? 289 00:42:27,714 --> 00:42:29,842 I wouldn't mind those 50 bows you bragged of. 290 00:42:29,883 --> 00:42:33,387 I could bring the bows, but the men are gone. 291 00:42:35,639 --> 00:42:38,350 Thorfinn! 292 00:42:40,894 --> 00:42:43,188 - Are you all right? - I'm fine. 293 00:42:43,230 --> 00:42:44,648 Good. 294 00:42:44,690 --> 00:42:47,693 What is that? 295 00:42:50,821 --> 00:42:53,365 A little high up for driftwood. 296 00:42:53,407 --> 00:42:55,284 What are we fighting here? 297 00:42:55,325 --> 00:42:57,911 A thing beyond our ken. 298 00:43:37,951 --> 00:43:42,623 We could spread out, meet back here in a year. 299 00:43:52,925 --> 00:43:55,969 We're out of our world. 300 00:44:53,277 --> 00:44:54,403 Go in peace. 301 00:44:54,444 --> 00:44:56,989 - Thank you. - Go with Christ! 302 00:44:57,030 --> 00:44:58,740 Next! 303 00:45:20,429 --> 00:45:23,599 I was off in a dream. 304 00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,727 I wish I could bring you a better one. 305 00:45:37,154 --> 00:45:39,907 Baptism they call it. 306 00:45:42,576 --> 00:45:45,704 Unferth feels that he has fallen from the grace of the gods. 307 00:45:52,294 --> 00:45:54,755 It's not every man's wish to sit in blood. 308 00:45:54,796 --> 00:45:58,383 If this Christ can stiffen Unferth's heart, 309 00:45:58,425 --> 00:46:00,093 what's the harm? 310 00:46:00,135 --> 00:46:03,388 They swim only out of fear. 311 00:46:03,430 --> 00:46:07,893 But still... 312 00:46:07,935 --> 00:46:09,645 they swim. 313 00:46:09,686 --> 00:46:12,189 Praise the lord! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 314 00:46:53,564 --> 00:46:55,524 Dusk soon, eh? 315 00:46:55,566 --> 00:46:59,278 Are you a herd dog? 316 00:46:59,319 --> 00:47:01,989 I've been called worse. 317 00:47:02,030 --> 00:47:03,824 I'm Beowulf. 318 00:47:03,866 --> 00:47:07,119 Yes, the much-told hero from Geatland. 319 00:47:14,209 --> 00:47:16,461 So who are your people? 320 00:47:16,503 --> 00:47:18,463 None. 321 00:47:18,505 --> 00:47:20,841 I came here in my teens, 322 00:47:20,883 --> 00:47:23,552 a whore to Unferth's uncle, Alfus Three Legs. 323 00:47:26,513 --> 00:47:28,223 So you're not then Dane? 324 00:47:28,265 --> 00:47:29,558 Oh, I am. 325 00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:31,810 My family was killed by Wolfing raiders. 326 00:47:31,852 --> 00:47:34,062 Oh, my father too. 327 00:47:34,104 --> 00:47:37,316 Well, not killed, 328 00:47:37,357 --> 00:47:40,486 but a feud with the Wolfings brought us here. 329 00:47:40,527 --> 00:47:43,739 I guess you weren't made a whore. 330 00:47:46,366 --> 00:47:48,327 I'm told you know of things to come... 331 00:47:48,368 --> 00:47:50,329 That's a wide sea. 332 00:47:50,370 --> 00:47:52,372 ...of the deaths of things. 333 00:47:52,414 --> 00:47:54,166 Seeing that everything living dies, 334 00:47:54,208 --> 00:47:57,002 you still give me the sight of gods. 335 00:47:57,044 --> 00:47:58,837 Speak clean. 336 00:47:58,879 --> 00:48:00,506 You wonder of yourself. 337 00:48:00,547 --> 00:48:02,591 More of the troll. 338 00:48:02,633 --> 00:48:04,843 Not of yourself? 339 00:48:04,885 --> 00:48:07,554 In some things I'd rather be blind. 340 00:48:07,596 --> 00:48:11,350 You're worse than Loki with your sheepshit whining. 341 00:48:11,391 --> 00:48:15,103 The death of the troll will cost dearly both the Geats and the Danes, 342 00:48:15,145 --> 00:48:17,981 as it bloody well should. 343 00:48:18,023 --> 00:48:19,358 Why is it, "should"? 344 00:48:19,399 --> 00:48:21,527 The Danes have done their doom on him. 345 00:48:21,568 --> 00:48:23,987 And you come here to kill. 346 00:48:24,029 --> 00:48:26,114 The day is going down. 347 00:48:26,156 --> 00:48:28,408 If you want to be ready... 348 00:48:33,372 --> 00:48:36,917 careful with what you don't understand. 349 00:48:58,021 --> 00:49:00,232 Has this thing, this troll, 350 00:49:00,274 --> 00:49:03,235 killed any children? 351 00:49:03,277 --> 00:49:05,571 - No. - Women? 352 00:49:06,989 --> 00:49:09,575 Old men? 353 00:49:10,576 --> 00:49:12,828 What are you saying? 354 00:49:12,870 --> 00:49:15,873 That he fights with a clean heart? 355 00:49:15,914 --> 00:49:18,292 He kills the strongest first. 356 00:49:18,333 --> 00:49:20,377 He shows us he can kill the strongest. 357 00:49:20,419 --> 00:49:22,421 Who cares if he spares the children? 358 00:49:22,462 --> 00:49:25,090 They'll die anyway without their fathers. 359 00:49:25,132 --> 00:49:29,469 My wits do war with how this all began. 360 00:49:32,306 --> 00:49:36,852 Hate for the mead-hall, I can only guess. 361 00:49:36,894 --> 00:49:39,980 The night we finished it the foul creep came. 362 00:49:40,022 --> 00:49:43,901 We hadn't seen a troll in 15-20 years. 363 00:49:43,942 --> 00:49:46,945 So nothing was done to the troll itself. 364 00:49:46,987 --> 00:49:50,491 Oh, Beowulf, it's a fucking troll! 365 00:49:50,532 --> 00:49:53,660 Maybe someone looked at it the wrong way. 366 00:49:55,412 --> 00:49:56,997 Some Dane? 367 00:50:00,375 --> 00:50:02,669 Who hands you this? Selma? 368 00:50:04,129 --> 00:50:07,591 Come on, she's been out in the wilds too long. 369 00:50:09,176 --> 00:50:11,970 Her head is full of spiders, her lap is full of moss. 370 00:50:12,012 --> 00:50:13,514 You said she sees things. 371 00:50:13,555 --> 00:50:16,141 Well, the crazy do see things! 372 00:50:17,976 --> 00:50:20,229 I never begged anyone to come here, 373 00:50:20,270 --> 00:50:22,272 take on our fight. 374 00:50:22,314 --> 00:50:25,150 - I don't know why you're here. - I know you don't. 375 00:50:25,192 --> 00:50:26,985 Then don't sadden my heart with talk 376 00:50:27,027 --> 00:50:30,948 about why a fucking troll does what a fucking troll does! 377 00:51:06,233 --> 00:51:08,527 Block the sides! 378 00:51:16,618 --> 00:51:18,745 Come on, crab-slime. 379 00:51:20,455 --> 00:51:23,208 Show me those teeth! 380 00:52:05,209 --> 00:52:07,836 All the night the warriors waited, 381 00:52:07,878 --> 00:52:10,714 Sword and shield in ring-wrapped grasp. 382 00:52:10,756 --> 00:52:13,133 Then the fiend of bog and brine 383 00:52:13,175 --> 00:52:15,594 Reached those doors of 10 men's weight. 384 00:52:15,636 --> 00:52:18,680 Made it creak by breath alone. 385 00:52:18,722 --> 00:52:22,100 Then smelt God amongst the men. 386 00:52:22,142 --> 00:52:24,019 Hardly had they hoisted steel 387 00:52:24,061 --> 00:52:26,355 When this thing's rank guts gave out. 388 00:52:26,396 --> 00:52:28,649 Great Beowulf, God's awful arm... 389 00:52:28,690 --> 00:52:31,485 Enough! 390 00:52:31,527 --> 00:52:32,903 Go on. Go off, kids. 391 00:52:32,945 --> 00:52:34,655 Go on, go off! 392 00:52:39,827 --> 00:52:41,620 You scared them doing that. 393 00:52:41,662 --> 00:52:45,207 Aw, fuck, Thorkel, they've only had months awakening 394 00:52:45,249 --> 00:52:49,586 to the scattered parts of kin. Don't feed them lies. 395 00:52:49,628 --> 00:52:51,880 That was piss the other night. 396 00:52:51,922 --> 00:52:54,132 Piss on us. 397 00:52:54,174 --> 00:52:57,177 If any gods were there, they were sleeping. 398 00:52:57,219 --> 00:53:00,973 The Celt says that Jesus Christ never sleeps, 399 00:53:01,014 --> 00:53:02,933 that he walks amongst us. 400 00:53:02,975 --> 00:53:05,477 Oh, that's all we need... 401 00:53:05,519 --> 00:53:08,856 a god gone mad from lack of sleep. 402 00:53:18,991 --> 00:53:21,243 Enough. 403 00:53:27,207 --> 00:53:30,627 He's already fighting like a Dane. 404 00:53:30,669 --> 00:53:34,339 You want to waste your strokes on me and the air? 405 00:53:34,381 --> 00:53:36,592 Go ahead. 406 00:53:39,887 --> 00:53:41,555 Hondscioh had a bad dream. 407 00:53:49,730 --> 00:53:52,024 And yours were good? 408 00:53:54,359 --> 00:53:57,362 Here, with the smoke of the dead? 409 00:53:59,031 --> 00:54:01,283 Don't see fear helping us. 410 00:54:20,928 --> 00:54:23,180 We shouldn't draw back. 411 00:54:23,222 --> 00:54:25,474 Fear has its place. 412 00:54:52,876 --> 00:54:55,128 I wondered if you'd throw the bones. 413 00:54:57,297 --> 00:54:59,591 I need the right path. 414 00:54:59,633 --> 00:55:01,760 There is the one that leads back to Geatland. 415 00:55:01,802 --> 00:55:05,138 If the bones say so. 416 00:55:07,349 --> 00:55:09,643 What if I lie? 417 00:55:12,479 --> 00:55:14,940 Then the gods will bring me back. 418 00:55:17,151 --> 00:55:19,862 So no thoughts at all for my cunt? 419 00:55:22,072 --> 00:55:24,825 Warrior-monk, huh? 420 00:55:26,660 --> 00:55:29,371 There's not many of those. 421 00:56:49,493 --> 00:56:50,911 Troll! 422 00:56:50,953 --> 00:56:54,998 Leave here, or stay and meet your doom! 423 00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:58,043 Doom! Doom doom! 424 00:56:58,085 --> 00:57:01,004 Doom doom! Doom doom! 425 00:57:01,046 --> 00:57:03,340 - Is that talk? - It isn't barking. 426 00:57:10,305 --> 00:57:12,766 - What? - You're not Dane. 427 00:57:12,808 --> 00:57:15,394 That's why you still breathe. 428 00:57:15,435 --> 00:57:18,063 I'm blood-born to Hrothgar! 429 00:57:22,109 --> 00:57:23,861 He says that's your burden. 430 00:57:23,902 --> 00:57:29,074 My burden is your stinking life! 431 00:57:29,116 --> 00:57:31,702 Ow! 432 00:57:31,743 --> 00:57:33,745 Come down here! 433 00:57:33,787 --> 00:57:36,415 I swear I'll hammer these stones 434 00:57:36,456 --> 00:57:38,375 right up your hairy ass! 435 00:57:48,677 --> 00:57:50,429 Why won't he fight me? 436 00:57:50,470 --> 00:57:52,681 Why should he? 437 00:57:52,723 --> 00:57:55,225 You've done nothing to him. 438 00:58:01,356 --> 00:58:03,650 What was he doing in your hut? 439 00:58:03,692 --> 00:58:05,319 I forgot. 440 00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:08,780 You're the great Geat, welcome to women wherever you go, 441 00:58:08,822 --> 00:58:10,782 swimmer of oceans, able to kill 442 00:58:10,824 --> 00:58:13,035 five Swedes with one stroke of his great blade. 443 00:58:13,076 --> 00:58:15,245 We came to help the Danes find peace. 444 00:58:15,287 --> 00:58:17,206 I'm Dane. 445 00:58:17,247 --> 00:58:19,791 I'm at peace. 446 00:58:19,833 --> 00:58:22,044 Not that I always was. 447 00:58:22,085 --> 00:58:25,297 When Alfus Three Legs died in my bed some claimed that I killed him, 448 00:58:25,339 --> 00:58:27,299 so they drove me to the wild. 449 00:58:27,341 --> 00:58:31,845 Then they'd only come around to maybe spill some seed. 450 00:58:31,887 --> 00:58:33,847 Not since Grendel. 451 00:58:33,889 --> 00:58:36,808 Grendel? 452 00:58:36,850 --> 00:58:38,811 Your troll. 453 00:58:38,852 --> 00:58:42,481 Weirdly enough he has a name. 454 00:58:42,523 --> 00:58:44,566 It means "grinder". 455 00:58:44,608 --> 00:58:47,319 Of bones? 456 00:58:47,361 --> 00:58:50,155 No, of teeth. 457 00:58:50,197 --> 00:58:52,950 He was born with bad dreams. 458 00:58:55,369 --> 00:58:58,413 Nothing I say will help you kill him. 459 00:59:15,389 --> 00:59:18,767 - As long as the king wins the day. - Always, my lord. 460 00:59:23,772 --> 00:59:25,566 Another bloodless dawn... 461 00:59:27,526 --> 00:59:30,487 for you at any rate. 462 00:59:33,740 --> 00:59:35,993 I'm pissing it. 463 00:59:36,034 --> 00:59:38,620 Blood? 464 00:59:38,662 --> 00:59:40,873 It's come and gone over the last few months. 465 00:59:40,914 --> 00:59:44,543 I'm turning into a woman 466 00:59:44,585 --> 00:59:47,212 or a dying man. 467 00:59:52,259 --> 00:59:54,887 I spoke with him last night... 468 00:59:54,928 --> 00:59:57,097 Grendel. 469 00:59:57,139 --> 00:59:59,308 You talked? 470 00:59:59,349 --> 01:00:02,311 If you can believe what Selma says. 471 01:00:02,352 --> 01:00:05,522 He was above me in the rocks, 472 01:00:05,564 --> 01:00:07,816 but he spoke words. 473 01:00:10,068 --> 01:00:11,320 He only wants Danes. 474 01:00:11,361 --> 01:00:12,988 He blames you for something. 475 01:00:13,030 --> 01:00:15,282 - Oh, he blames me? - Mm-hmm. 476 01:00:17,159 --> 01:00:18,577 He blames me! 477 01:00:18,619 --> 01:00:22,873 Of all the shit, he blames me! 478 01:00:22,915 --> 01:00:25,709 There's coast north of here no Dane ever dares to go. 479 01:00:25,751 --> 01:00:27,711 How much land does one mouth need? 480 01:00:27,753 --> 01:00:30,422 What does he think he is? Some fucking troll Caesar 481 01:00:30,464 --> 01:00:32,424 with rights to everything he looks upon? 482 01:00:35,469 --> 01:00:39,056 Beowulf, 483 01:00:39,097 --> 01:00:41,600 the word on the wave says 484 01:00:41,642 --> 01:00:44,853 I die happy. 485 01:00:44,895 --> 01:00:47,272 No gods I've ever known has offered me that. 486 01:00:47,314 --> 01:00:50,359 They promised me beer, fish here and there 487 01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:53,403 and friends to boot. 488 01:00:58,325 --> 01:01:00,911 It's hard to hold you spoke to that thing. 489 01:01:00,953 --> 01:01:03,622 From well beyond my sword. 490 01:01:08,085 --> 01:01:10,295 Something has you turning. 491 01:01:10,337 --> 01:01:13,924 I fear he just waits for us to go. 492 01:01:15,717 --> 01:01:18,011 Same thought gnaws on me. 493 01:01:34,361 --> 01:01:36,572 Now, Celt, bless me and be done! 494 01:01:42,035 --> 01:01:44,705 Go in peace, my lord! 495 01:01:44,746 --> 01:01:46,415 Go in peace! 496 01:01:46,456 --> 01:01:47,916 Wise king, go in peace! 497 01:01:52,504 --> 01:01:54,381 That's it, my lord! 498 01:01:54,423 --> 01:01:56,383 Praise the lord, 499 01:01:56,425 --> 01:01:59,678 Wise king! 500 01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:03,182 Go in the sight of Christ, wise king. 501 01:02:16,403 --> 01:02:18,864 Ho! Ho! 502 01:02:18,906 --> 01:02:20,365 Ho! 503 01:02:20,407 --> 01:02:23,118 Grimur's got a troll heart! He brought the troll here! 504 01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:24,995 I'm a Dane and a Christian! 505 01:02:25,037 --> 01:02:26,538 And your mother screwed trolls! 506 01:02:26,580 --> 01:02:28,540 You little prick, you! 507 01:02:33,128 --> 01:02:35,839 The troll killed my brothers! 508 01:02:35,881 --> 01:02:38,258 But this wretch didn't. 509 01:02:38,300 --> 01:02:41,428 But we'll get the one who did. 510 01:02:41,470 --> 01:02:44,223 Now on you go. All of you, go on! 511 01:02:48,060 --> 01:02:50,020 I can lead you 512 01:02:50,062 --> 01:02:53,106 to the Dane killer's cave. 513 01:02:58,779 --> 01:03:00,489 Why didn't you before? 514 01:03:00,531 --> 01:03:05,410 I-I feared its wrath, 515 01:03:05,452 --> 01:03:07,704 my death. 516 01:03:09,790 --> 01:03:14,795 No more. 517 01:03:26,682 --> 01:03:28,976 Over there! 518 01:03:36,441 --> 01:03:38,652 Listen! 519 01:03:59,673 --> 01:04:02,301 Great. So who jumps first? 520 01:04:02,342 --> 01:04:05,762 It's... it's a short climb down. 521 01:04:09,308 --> 01:04:11,101 Our scabby friend's right. 522 01:04:11,143 --> 01:04:13,145 I can see the hole. 523 01:04:13,187 --> 01:04:15,230 Give us a hand. 524 01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:42,299 I-I swear by Christ! 525 01:04:42,341 --> 01:04:44,301 Let's leave Christ out of this. 526 01:04:49,473 --> 01:04:51,433 We need a rope. 527 01:04:51,475 --> 01:04:52,810 I'll rope you. 528 01:04:52,851 --> 01:04:55,354 That might not be a bad idea. 529 01:04:55,395 --> 01:04:59,066 Here, troll, have some of this! 530 01:05:33,517 --> 01:05:37,062 So they came to the cave of the killer, 531 01:05:37,104 --> 01:05:39,481 Wrecked by rush 532 01:05:39,523 --> 01:05:42,568 And slime of slope, 533 01:05:42,609 --> 01:05:45,404 Hondscioh fair fell to Valhalla. 534 01:05:45,445 --> 01:05:47,573 Let's let this sad tale sleep. 535 01:05:47,614 --> 01:05:50,117 Hondscioh shows up, 536 01:05:50,159 --> 01:05:53,579 great Odin asks how he died. 537 01:05:53,620 --> 01:05:55,789 He says, "I fell." 538 01:06:05,007 --> 01:06:08,927 Breca! Breca! 539 01:06:32,951 --> 01:06:35,787 Even the trolls love my wonderful hair. 540 01:06:35,829 --> 01:06:37,789 Oh, I think he wanted you for more than that. 541 01:06:37,831 --> 01:06:40,334 Great Breca, the troll-house pisser. 542 01:06:40,375 --> 01:06:43,795 I'd be more careful where I would wave my spear! 543 01:06:43,837 --> 01:06:46,965 I'd piss in his mouth if he dared to show it. 544 01:06:47,007 --> 01:06:50,427 Best be ready to do more than that. 545 01:07:30,884 --> 01:07:34,179 It's the cripple. 546 01:08:29,151 --> 01:08:31,904 Eh, Beowulf. 547 01:08:53,342 --> 01:08:55,802 Look, 548 01:08:55,844 --> 01:08:59,056 Your friend Grendel doesn't come from mist and shit alone. 549 01:09:02,476 --> 01:09:06,939 I curse you and all your kin. 550 01:09:51,775 --> 01:09:53,443 He wasn't in his cave. 551 01:09:53,485 --> 01:09:56,071 How does he die? 552 01:09:57,197 --> 01:09:59,700 Lest your teeth can catch an ax... 553 01:10:01,910 --> 01:10:05,873 I led my men into this not knowing. 554 01:10:05,914 --> 01:10:09,668 If I'd known, I would have come alone. 555 01:10:09,710 --> 01:10:11,753 Now I see doom hanging over some of them, 556 01:10:11,795 --> 01:10:13,589 doom I brought. 557 01:10:16,216 --> 01:10:18,468 You found the cave? 558 01:10:20,304 --> 01:10:22,264 That's where I see him dying. 559 01:10:22,306 --> 01:10:24,266 Would you wait in your cave for killers 560 01:10:24,308 --> 01:10:26,810 that knew the path to your door? 561 01:10:30,397 --> 01:10:32,441 Take me to Grendel! 562 01:10:32,483 --> 01:10:35,861 What, you think I can sniff him down? 563 01:10:35,903 --> 01:10:38,739 Maybe not. Maybe he can sniff you. 564 01:10:56,256 --> 01:10:59,384 - Which way up from here? - Straight, but you'd need claws. 565 01:10:59,426 --> 01:11:01,345 Then again, heroes... 566 01:11:05,015 --> 01:11:07,267 You hit me... I'll be the one. 567 01:11:10,062 --> 01:11:12,397 What "the one"? 568 01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:14,608 I can't stop his death from coming, 569 01:11:14,650 --> 01:11:18,612 nor can I hurry it. 570 01:11:18,654 --> 01:11:20,739 He needs to know 571 01:11:20,781 --> 01:11:22,908 I know he was wronged. 572 01:11:22,950 --> 01:11:25,077 But if he doesn't leave here, 573 01:11:25,118 --> 01:11:28,080 - I can't stop... - You're warning him? 574 01:11:40,467 --> 01:11:42,928 Careful which side you end up on. 575 01:11:42,970 --> 01:11:45,931 You're a long way from the village. 576 01:11:45,973 --> 01:11:49,434 You're a longer way from home. 577 01:13:45,968 --> 01:13:48,387 Wake up, men, 578 01:13:48,428 --> 01:13:51,181 or never again! 579 01:14:05,946 --> 01:14:08,448 By Christ, demon, you shall die! 580 01:14:14,121 --> 01:14:15,622 Poppy. 581 01:17:21,642 --> 01:17:24,353 Now you truly know our loss. 582 01:17:27,606 --> 01:17:31,693 You only told us half the tale. 583 01:17:31,735 --> 01:17:34,488 The other half will dull your sword. 584 01:17:36,532 --> 01:17:39,785 That troll didn't give a shit about us, 585 01:17:39,827 --> 01:17:42,246 not till we wronged him. 586 01:17:42,287 --> 01:17:44,248 He killed one. 587 01:17:44,289 --> 01:17:47,000 He could have killed more. 588 01:17:48,377 --> 01:17:50,712 He killed the one he held in blame. 589 01:17:50,754 --> 01:17:54,132 Were it so easy, I'd have been the one. 590 01:17:57,052 --> 01:17:59,263 I killed his father. 591 01:18:00,931 --> 01:18:02,724 Even that might have been an end 592 01:18:02,766 --> 01:18:04,935 had it only been the father there. 593 01:18:17,698 --> 01:18:19,658 None of the others saw the child, 594 01:18:19,700 --> 01:18:23,120 but I could have quelled it there and then. 595 01:18:23,162 --> 01:18:25,205 Weakness stopped my sword. 596 01:18:30,711 --> 01:18:35,174 - Or kindness. - Then it's the hardest kindness I know! 597 01:18:35,215 --> 01:18:38,343 All the gods are running away from me now 598 01:18:38,385 --> 01:18:40,637 as though I were the death itself. 599 01:18:47,644 --> 01:18:50,606 What had the father done to you? 600 01:18:50,647 --> 01:18:53,066 Why did you kill him? 601 01:18:54,193 --> 01:18:56,445 It crossed our path... 602 01:18:58,697 --> 01:19:01,116 took a fish. 603 01:19:31,396 --> 01:19:34,483 - Without an arm... - Unless it grows back. 604 01:19:35,484 --> 01:19:37,861 He's a troll. 605 01:19:41,156 --> 01:19:43,116 Tell me, Thorfinn, 606 01:19:43,158 --> 01:19:45,410 what is a troll? 607 01:19:45,452 --> 01:19:47,788 They say there are lizards 608 01:19:47,830 --> 01:19:50,707 that can grow back limbs. 609 01:19:50,749 --> 01:19:54,044 They say there are worms that can grow back heads. 610 01:19:55,379 --> 01:19:58,632 This thing's no more worm than you or I. 611 01:20:03,178 --> 01:20:04,763 Hey! Hey! 612 01:20:07,099 --> 01:20:11,270 Yea! 613 01:20:16,483 --> 01:20:21,071 You know, I put my thing in other men's wives, 614 01:20:21,113 --> 01:20:24,616 - other man's daughters. - All can be forgiven. 615 01:20:24,658 --> 01:20:26,618 I slept with a witch. 616 01:20:26,660 --> 01:20:29,204 You slept with a witch? 617 01:20:30,205 --> 01:20:32,499 That's gotta be bad. 618 01:20:32,541 --> 01:20:35,252 I put my thing in her. It was a while back. 619 01:20:35,294 --> 01:20:37,546 As long as you vow to change your ways. 620 01:20:37,588 --> 01:20:39,840 You know I'll try, right? 621 01:20:51,685 --> 01:20:57,691 Yeah! Yeah! 622 01:20:59,693 --> 01:21:03,113 Where's the arm ring? I wanted the arm ring. 623 01:21:03,155 --> 01:21:04,990 - It didn't have an arm ring. - It did. 624 01:21:05,032 --> 01:21:06,825 Listen, the creep nearly snapped my neck. 625 01:21:06,867 --> 01:21:08,494 If I could at least get the arm ring... 626 01:21:08,535 --> 01:21:11,246 Come here! 627 01:21:11,288 --> 01:21:14,833 - To the end of gloom! - To the end of gloom! 628 01:21:14,875 --> 01:21:17,878 To the end of gloom. 629 01:21:25,511 --> 01:21:28,764 I don't think I'm the worst king. 630 01:21:28,806 --> 01:21:29,932 Not at all. 631 01:21:29,973 --> 01:21:33,101 When I think of the others... 632 01:21:33,143 --> 01:21:36,980 Martin Long Sword has got a long sword but no brains. 633 01:21:37,022 --> 01:21:39,525 Half his kin ran off to Angle-land. 634 01:21:39,566 --> 01:21:42,110 Six Tooth Pete is a sloth, 635 01:21:42,152 --> 01:21:46,532 can't keep his warriors from fighting each other. 636 01:21:46,573 --> 01:21:48,826 And then there's Sigge... 637 01:21:48,867 --> 01:21:53,622 - Oh, Sigge. - Sigge Skull Splitter, the half-a-bard. 638 01:21:53,664 --> 01:21:55,666 Haven't you heard of Sigge? 639 01:21:55,707 --> 01:21:59,002 I don't know. Something... with sheep? 640 01:21:59,044 --> 01:22:01,964 Sheep? Good god, man! 641 01:22:02,005 --> 01:22:03,757 Sheep are just the tip of it! 642 01:22:03,799 --> 01:22:06,135 They said he tried it once with a dead walrus. 643 01:22:06,176 --> 01:22:09,096 He's tried horses, he's tried goats. 644 01:22:09,138 --> 01:22:12,057 They say he once tried it with a rabbit and got stuck! 645 01:22:12,099 --> 01:22:13,725 Stuck? 646 01:22:13,767 --> 01:22:16,854 I tell you, when he comes to a fight he comes with six legs! 647 01:22:16,895 --> 01:22:19,606 You wanna see fast? 648 01:22:21,441 --> 01:22:23,402 If he ever comes here, 649 01:22:23,443 --> 01:22:25,529 I'll just send out a batch of squirrels. 650 01:22:25,571 --> 01:22:27,447 That'll stop him! 651 01:22:46,091 --> 01:22:48,343 It's over now. It's over. 652 01:22:49,678 --> 01:22:51,972 The troll's dead. 653 01:22:54,141 --> 01:22:57,144 Come lie down, dear. Let's lie down a bit. 654 01:22:57,186 --> 01:22:59,271 There will be many more nights now to drink. 655 01:23:22,169 --> 01:23:25,756 Was this more or less how you saw it, 656 01:23:25,797 --> 01:23:27,424 with the troll? 657 01:23:27,466 --> 01:23:30,677 I saw you more bloodied. 658 01:23:34,515 --> 01:23:37,267 Luck stayed on my side. 659 01:23:37,309 --> 01:23:40,020 Luck can be a whore too. 660 01:23:41,522 --> 01:23:44,149 Aren't you missing the meal? 661 01:23:44,191 --> 01:23:47,569 I guess I miss my friend more. 662 01:23:47,611 --> 01:23:49,780 Hondscioh. 663 01:23:51,448 --> 01:23:55,077 And one Geat's life worth what? 664 01:23:55,118 --> 01:23:56,745 Hmm? 665 01:23:56,787 --> 01:24:00,332 Two Danes? Three Swedes? 666 01:24:00,374 --> 01:24:02,125 10 trolls? 667 01:24:05,420 --> 01:24:08,340 Hondscioh's life had worth to you since you knew him. 668 01:24:10,968 --> 01:24:13,637 Others know others. 669 01:24:17,891 --> 01:24:19,893 You mourn the troll. 670 01:24:22,062 --> 01:24:24,064 I knew him. 671 01:24:27,901 --> 01:24:31,572 One night Grendel found my hut. 672 01:26:14,341 --> 01:26:16,635 He never took me again. 673 01:26:22,015 --> 01:26:24,393 So why did he keep coming back? 674 01:26:24,434 --> 01:26:27,187 To keep the Danes away... 675 01:26:29,690 --> 01:26:33,861 the ones who would fuck me and then cut my throat. 676 01:26:55,507 --> 01:26:58,260 Where did that have its birth? 677 01:26:58,302 --> 01:27:01,972 You're thinking you can tie me up and drag me like a dog. 678 01:27:04,141 --> 01:27:06,393 Don't forget... 679 01:27:08,437 --> 01:27:10,230 I know how you die. 680 01:27:22,409 --> 01:27:24,203 Been a while? 681 01:27:24,244 --> 01:27:26,538 With men. 682 01:27:52,105 --> 01:27:55,859 He slept with the witch. 683 01:27:55,901 --> 01:27:58,237 Who sleeps with a witch? 684 01:27:58,278 --> 01:28:02,074 I'm telling you, Christ, you talk to Celts... you'd work for days. 685 01:28:02,115 --> 01:28:05,118 It's one hand on their sword, the other on their dick. 686 01:28:05,160 --> 01:28:07,371 And which hand they'll use to cross themselves 687 01:28:07,412 --> 01:28:08,831 I almost fear to ask. 688 01:28:37,651 --> 01:28:41,280 Die! 689 01:28:41,321 --> 01:28:43,407 Learn from your child, hag! 690 01:29:36,293 --> 01:29:40,881 Aeschere! Aeschere! 691 01:29:50,724 --> 01:29:52,976 It's Aeschere. 692 01:29:57,523 --> 01:30:01,693 Aeschere, we will right this wrong. 693 01:30:01,735 --> 01:30:04,947 God will burn this devil-witch fiend! 694 01:30:37,396 --> 01:30:39,731 Nothing lives here. 695 01:30:52,244 --> 01:30:54,204 The cave doesn't end here. 696 01:30:54,246 --> 01:30:56,540 There's outflow from the other side. 697 01:30:56,582 --> 01:30:58,458 I'll go. 698 01:31:00,169 --> 01:31:01,962 You can't swim for shit. 699 01:34:02,100 --> 01:34:03,769 Your father? 700 01:34:20,452 --> 01:34:22,454 Then be proud. 701 01:34:55,362 --> 01:34:59,616 Valkyries will have their hands full with that old goat. 702 01:35:03,579 --> 01:35:07,249 I'm sorry to have brought you to all of this. 703 01:35:07,291 --> 01:35:09,418 We brought ourselves. 704 01:35:09,459 --> 01:35:11,545 At least it's over. 705 01:35:13,547 --> 01:35:16,175 The Celtic priest said 706 01:35:16,216 --> 01:35:18,802 I'd be forgiven. 707 01:35:18,844 --> 01:35:22,347 I just need to hook the right god. 708 01:35:22,389 --> 01:35:24,933 Do you ever worry about that? 709 01:35:24,975 --> 01:35:26,977 Heaven? 710 01:35:29,062 --> 01:35:32,065 I'm thinking I'll likely go where I'm sent. 711 01:36:10,604 --> 01:36:13,148 You know they'll kill your son if they find him. 712 01:36:15,567 --> 01:36:17,820 You couldn't. 713 01:36:27,955 --> 01:36:30,207 I'm not them. 714 01:36:33,252 --> 01:36:35,838 No. 715 01:36:35,879 --> 01:36:38,090 You just killed his father. 716 01:36:42,302 --> 01:36:45,472 Hrothgar taught you nothing then. 717 01:37:45,991 --> 01:37:48,702 Sleep, Grendel. 718 01:38:19,024 --> 01:38:23,654 Born of scum and swampy things, 719 01:38:23,695 --> 01:38:27,950 Lurking in his mother's moss; 720 01:38:27,991 --> 01:38:30,369 The mark of Cain 721 01:38:30,410 --> 01:38:34,206 Came to his brow; 722 01:38:34,248 --> 01:38:37,209 Of evil and of sea hag born. 723 01:38:37,251 --> 01:38:42,172 Grendel, grinder of lost men's bones 724 01:38:42,214 --> 01:38:44,383 Felt hate towards the happy Danes. 725 01:38:44,424 --> 01:38:47,094 Cain? What's that? 726 01:38:47,136 --> 01:38:50,222 A man who killed his brother in a Christian tale. 727 01:38:50,264 --> 01:38:52,724 What's Cain got to do with Grendel? 728 01:38:52,766 --> 01:38:54,935 Grendel kill his own brother too? 729 01:38:54,977 --> 01:38:56,937 No. I think Thorkel's saying 730 01:38:56,979 --> 01:38:59,565 that Grendel's like Cain... 731 01:38:59,606 --> 01:39:01,567 - a killer. - We all are. 732 01:39:01,608 --> 01:39:05,112 - Yeah, well... - Thorkel's tale is shit. 733 01:39:44,735 --> 01:39:46,737 By Odin's will... 734 01:39:46,778 --> 01:39:50,073 ...let us find our way home!