The document provides excerpts from Beowulf and prompts the reader to create a visual sequence from different characters' points of view. It describes Grendel's mother dragging Beowulf to her underwater lair and attacking him with sea beasts. When Beowulf fights back, she grips him in a "grim embrace." Later, Beowulf dives into the lake and sees Grendel's mother's lair on the bottom. In the fight, Beowulf severs Grendel's mother's neck, killing her. The document prompts imagining these scenes from the perspectives of Grendel's mother and Beowulf.

1. Beowulf
film making stimulus

2. Make an impressionistic sequence of still images and one or
two bits of moving image from the point of view of
Grendel’s Mother
Then once she touched bottom, the wolfish swimmer
Carried the ring-mailed prince to her court
So that for all his courage he could never use
The weapons he carried; and a bewildering horde
Came at him from the depths, droves of sea-beasts
Who attacked with tusks and tore at his chain-mail
In a ghastly onslaught.

3. Then once she touched bottom, the wolfish swimmer
Carried the ring-mailed prince to her court
So that for all his courage he could never use
The weapons he carried; and a bewildering horde
Came at him from the depths, droves of sea-beasts
Who attacked with tusks and tore at his chain-mail
In a ghastly onslaught.
Make an impressionistic sequence of still images and
one or two bits of moving image from the point of
view of Beowulf

5. Make an impressionistic sequence of still images and one
or two bits of moving image that shows this moment of
the fight
How can you show the ‘grim embrace’?
Then the prince of War-Geats, warming to his fight
With Grendel’s mother, gripped her shoulder
And laid about him in a battle frenzy:
He pitched his killer opponent to the floor
But she rose quickly and retaliated,
Grappled him tightly in her grim embrace.

7. Make a sequence of still images and one or two bits of moving image
from the point of view of Beowulf
What terrifying thing does he see through the gloom as he travels
towards the bottom of the lake?
Without more ado, he dived in to the heaving
Depths of the lake. It was the best part of a day
Before he could see the solid bottom.
Quickly the one who haunted those waters,
Who had scavenged and gone her gluttonous rounds
For a hundred seasons, sensed a human
Observing her outlandish lair from above.

8. Make a sequence of still images and one or two bits of
moving image that show what flashes through
Grendel’s Mother’s mind as she is being killed by Beowulf.
This might include memories of her son and
his arrival without an arm, to die in their watery lair

9. So the Shieldings’ hero, hard-pressed and enraged,
Took a firm hold of the hilt and swung
The blade in an arc, a resolute blow
That bit into her neck bone
And severed it entirely, toppling the doomed
House of her flesh; she fell to the floor