Heorot (Old English 'hart, stag') is a mead-hall and major point of focus in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. The hall serves as a seat of rule for King Hrothgar...

Chi Heorot (often referred to simply as "Heorot" or "XH") is a local fraternity at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Heorot was founded in 1897...

The Legacy of Heorot is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes, first published in 1987. Reproduction...

numerous reinterpretations and re-imaginings. Grendel is feared by all in Heorot but Beowulf, who kills both him and his mother. Grendel is a figure in the...

people from the trollish creature Grendel. Widsith only mentions Hrothgar, Heorot, his nephew Hroðulf and their enemy Ingeld, but can complete Beowulf in...

Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall Heorot has been under attack by the monster Grendel for twelve years. After Beowulf...

Legacy of Heorot (1987) (with Steven Barnes and Jerry Pournelle) (release order book 1) Beowulf's Children (1995, UK: The Dragons of Heorot) (with Barnes...

Old English heorot; compare Frisian hart, Dutch hert, German Hirsch, and Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish hjort, all meaning "deer". Heorot is given as...

that it would not be renewed for a second series. Beowulf returns to his Heorot to find that Hrothgar, his adoptive father, is dead. Hrothgar's wife, Rheda...

the bog to die from his wound, and his arm was attached to the wall of Heorot. The next day, Beowulf was lauded and a skald (scop) sang and compared Beowulf...

earth-goddess. Grendel, an eoten who, along with his mother, ravages the hall of Heorot before being killed by Beowulf. Fárbauti, the jötunn father of Loki with...

Scandinavia, comes to the aid of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf kills...

her family. Earlier in the Beowulf poem, the poet tells us that the hall Heorot was eventually destroyed by fire, see quote (Gummere's translation): It...

translation of Rohirric. Meduseld, the hall of King Théoden, is modelled on Heorot, the great hall in Beowulf. Within the plot of The Lord of the Rings, Rohan...

imagery associated with Heorot, and the Sutton Hoo scepter. Sam Newton identifies both the Sutton Hoo whetstone and the hall Heorot as early English symbols...

nephew and heir of Rothgar, of King of Heorot John Hurt as Rothgar, King of Heorot Cliff Saunders as Boromir, Heorot's smith Ron Perlman as Gunnar, king of...

celebration in the mead hall Heorot. Upon arriving, Beowulf becomes attracted to Hrothgar's wife Queen Wealtheow. The men celebrate in Heorot to lure Grendel out...

Xh or XH may refer to: Xh (digraph) Chi Heorot, a fraternity at Dartmouth College Mexico (International Telecommunication Union callsign prefix XH) Xhosa...

bride to her rightful husband. Set between White Night and Small Favor, "Heorot" was published in My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon (December 26, 2007,...

descendants of Cain. After Grendel is killed, Grendel's mother attacks Heorot in revenge. Beowulf then ventures into her cave under a lake, and engages...

Martin. "Chapter 52: Jon". A Game of Thrones. Slade, Benjamin. "Beowulf". heorot.dk. Retrieved 3 December 2023. Farrell, Thomas J. (2015). "The Meanings...

and adopted the name Chi Phi Heorot. The "Heorot" in Chi Phi Heorot comes from the medieval poem Beowulf, in which Heorot is the great hall where warriors...

Lothlórien. ISBN 0-618-12699-6. Gallant, Richard Z. (2014). "Original Sin in Heorot and Valinor". Tolkien Studies. 11 (1): 109–129. doi:10.1353/tks.2014.0019...

Grendel reaches Heorot: Beowulf 710–714 Old English verse Morris's translation Ðá cóm of móre     under misthleoþum     Came then from the moor-land, all...

near Regensburg, Germany Walhalla, Victoria, Australia township in 1910 Heorot, a celebrated hall central to the Old English poem Beowulf "Valhalla" Archived...

account is closely based on the hero Beowulf's dealings with Unferth in Heorot, where Unferth is King Hrothgar's "ambiguous" spokesman; Unferth is thoroughly...

(1989) Firedance (1993) The Heorot series: The Legacy of Heorot (1987; with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle) The Dragons of Heorot (1995; with Larry Niven...

slaying of Hreðric may be the occasion of the future burning of the hall of Heorot in the beginning of the poem – though some take it instead to refer to the...

the history of the English-speaking world: Beowulf's struggle to save the Heorot mead hall, King John's signing of the Magna Carta and Thomas Jefferson's...

flee ("fingers cracked") C: Uproar in hall; Danes stricken with terror HEOROT IN DANGER OF FALLING C': Uproar in hall; Danes stricken with terror B':...