Comparing Beowulf And The 13th Warrior

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Two distinctive and / or comparable stories that are about the Anglo-Saxon culture are Beowulf and The 13th Warrior. Both stories display good v.s. Evil in detail, shows the characters true colors on how they are and how they remember/honor the dead. Beowulf has detail in the story, however in The 13th Warrior we can actually see the tension that is going on rather than visualizing it.
Fighting monsters is one of the things that both the poem and the movie have in common. “Heard how Grendel filled the nights with horror and quickly commanded a boat fitted out…,” in the poem it states that Grendel was the only monster Beowulf was fighting against and incompatibly in the movie there were more creatures whom they wanted to defeat. Another similarity is that in both they kill the mothers, Beowulf kills Grendel’s mother in Beowulf and in The 13th Warrior Buliwf kills the Wendol Warlord. On the other hand in The 13th Warrior they were building/ setting a wall that could sort of protect them from the monsters and could use it as shields, Beowulf didn’t do that. …show more content…

In the movie they go fight the monsters underwater and Beowulf also fights underwater, just with one monster whom came out to be Grendel’s mother. The men in The 13th Warrior took people’s heads, “Brave men staggering under the weight of Grendel’s skull, too heavy for fewer than four of them to handle…,” Beowulf just brought back Grendel’s head as a trophy to demonstrate that he killed Grendel. When the monsters came to the warriors village one of them left their claw behind, Grendel’s arm was tore/ snapped off by

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