Beowulf/Fridge

Beowulf (the 2007 film)

• Fridge Brilliance: When Beowulf says he "killed" nine sea monsters (and Grendel's mother), he's using the old euphemistic meaning.
  • Care to explain further? I want to know what it means.
    • The euphemism being for "having had sex with". In the movie, which is supposedly the real-life events of which the poem is based on, the sea monsters he claims he killed are actually mermaids he had sex with, and instead of killing Grendel's mother he fathers the dragon with her.
  • Not at all. He just "killed" the mermaid, and the other sea monsters were truly killed, at least that's why I understood for it. He had sex with the mermaid, however, as he remarks he "killed" her with his "sword". And Grendel's momma too.