Anthony Hopkins credited as playing...
Hrothgar
- King Hrothgar: [referring to the Royal Dragon Horn, but looking at his Queen] I wonder how many men have died for love of her beauty.
- Beowulf: Can you blame them?
- King Hrothgar: If you destroy my Grendel for me, she'll be yours forever and ever and ever.
- Beowulf: [takes the horn in his hands] You do me great honor.
- Wealthow: [asuming they are talking about her] It is we who are honored.
- Beowulf: How many monsters must I slay? Grendel's mother, father, Grende's uncle? Must I hack down a whole family tree of demons?
- King Hrothgar: She is the last of them. Whith her gone, demonkind will slip back into the darkness from whence it came.
- Wiglaf: And where it belongs.
- Beowulf: And the mother's mate? Where is Grendel's father?
- King Hrothgar: Grendel's father can do no harm to man.
- King Hrothgar: [Wealthow refuses to sleep with him] My kingdom needs an heir, I need a son! It's time you did your duty!
- Wealthow: How could I ever lay with you, knowing you laid with her?
- King Hrothgar: I should never have told you. I should never have told you.
- King Hrothgar: Did you kill her?
- Beowulf: Would you like to hear the story of my struggle against this monstrous hag?
- King Hrothgar: She's no hag, Beowulf. We both know that. But answer me, did you kill her?
- Beowulf: Would I have been able to escape her, had I not?
- King Hrothgar: Grendel is dead. That's all that matter to me. He can bother me no more. The mother, the hag... She's not my curse, not anymore. Not anymore.
- Wealthow: [after Grendel has attacked the Great Hall for the first time] What *was* that?
- King Hrothgar: Grendel!