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The story Beowolf, is an epic and was written by an unknown auther. It was written in Old English. Beowolf has a Christian narrator telling a story of pagan times. This story was made into a movie. Both the movie and the story are very intense. The story took awhile to show the queen. In the very first part of the movie the queen is shown.Grendal is a demon. The demon has has red eyes in the story and yellow ey s in the movie. Grendals moms nickname is water witch. She shows up towards the end of the story. In the movie she is shown much earlier. Her part in the movie is much different than the story. There are a lot of things added to the movie like Beowolf going to her den and not killing her. Beowolf, the story Beowolf

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