Heorot
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Heorot is a mead-hall described in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf as "the foremost of halls under heaven." It served as a palace for King Hroðgar, a legendary Danish king of the sixth century. Heorot means "Hall of the Hart" (male deer).
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In popular culture
- The 2007 film Beowulf, directed by Robert Zemeckis, depicts Heorot as a loud and boisterous place, and suggests that the noise is the source of Grendel's anger.Template:Citation needed
- In the novel Grendel (1971) by John Gardner, Heorot is referred to as "Hart" (male deer).
- In the video game Grendel's Cave, Heorot Hall is the starting location in the game and a safe place, except from the AI Monster Grendel, to sleep.
- The Heorot is a pub and draught house located on South Walnut Street in downtown Muncie, Indiana. The pub is home to over 70 draft beers and 350 bottled beers from around the world.
- Chi Heorot, a fraternity at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, is named after the hall.
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Science fiction series
The Heorot series by Steven Barnes, Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven is named after the hall. It contains the following books:
- The Legacy of Heorot (1987)
- Beowulf's Children (1995)
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Science fiction reference
- In The Sorrow of Odin the Goth, a story in Poul Anderson's book Time Patrolman, a fictional group of Goths migrate from the Vistula to the Dnieper and build a hall named Heorot, because "that was the name of a famous dwelling in the north".
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