AAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Attack of the supposed-to-be-beowolf-thing!
Actually, it's supposed to be Beastling and Chad's mother.
Yeah, I was told by a reliable source that this is nothing like Beastling and Chad's mother is supposed to be like. I personally think this is nothing like a beowolf is supposed to be like - but you tell me.
Also -- I am aware that she has no feet (I was going to draw them later and never did
)
Did you know that Beowulf is a poem about a king named Beowulf?
About the poem:
Beowulf (c. 700-1000 A.D.) is a heroic epic poem. At 3,182 lines, it is notable for its length in comparison to other Old English poems. It represents about 10% of the extant corpus of Old English poetry. The poem is untitled in the manuscript, but has been known as Beowulf since the early 19th century. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of a Germanic tribe from southern Sweden called the Geats, travels to Denmark to help defeat a monster named Grendel. Then he is faced with the problem of Grendel's Mother, and he defeats her also. He later returns to Geatland, where he becomes king, and when he is old he kills a dragon and dies. Although dealing primarily with Scandinavian matters, the work has risen to such prominence that it is sometimes called "England's national epic."
About the king:
Beowulf is the legendary hero and king of the Anglo-Saxon, epic poem of the same name. He was the son of Ecgþeow, a banished warrior of the apparently Swedish Wægmundings. Ecgþeow had slain Heaðolaf, a man from another clan named the Wulfings (according to Scandinavian sources, they were the ruling dynasty of the Geatish petty kingdom of Östergötland). Apparently, because the victim was from a prominent family the weregild was set too high, and so Ecgþeow was banished and had to seek refuge among the Danes. The Danish king Hroðgar generously paid the weregild, and had Ecgþeow swear an oath.
Ecgþeow was in the service of the Geatish king Hreðel, whose daughter he married. They had Beowulf, who grew up with the Geats. Beowulf's childhood friend was Breca of the Brondings "supposed to be the inhabitants of the island Brännö, lying off the coast of West Gothland in the Cattegat" [1]). This would be a realistic location for a childhood friend of Beowulf, and the poem describes a swimming contest between them.
I have to much spare time...
