In most of the versions of Beowulf there's a bunch of stuff about how big and grand Hrothgar's hall is. I'd always assumed it was puff, or filler, but now I've decided that Grendel had to be about 18 ft tall to carry 30 warriors, then of course the hall had to be big, or he wouldn't have fit through the door.
And that makes me edgy as I was pretty sure old English time buildings were pretty small wooden structures, being limited by log size and whatnot.
But there's this old bit of tower behind the art gallery in York that hints that maybe the Saxon types could build stuff? Anyway... Her's day 2 Grendel outside the hall, which is obviously in the wrong order, but who cares.
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