beowulf help?

Question

Why was king hrothgar's hall deserted for 12 years?

Answer 1

Blame Grendel:

"Filled with rage, Grendel comes at night to Heorot, kills the thirty thanes sleeping there, and returns home with their slaughtered corpses. Daybreak brings woe to the ruler and his people upon their discovery of the monster's vengeance. The next night Grendel returns, the hall soon stands deserted (at night), and for twelve years, refusing to parley or to make peace, the demon prowls over the fen, raiding and destroying. The tale is soon noised abroad by the gleemen.

Answer 2

Beowulf is the longest and greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poem. The setting of the epic is the sixth century in what is now known as Denmark and southwestern Sweden.

Study guides

These links will give you a summary of the book, character analysis, plot and much more, so that you will be able to answer literary questions.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=11831&lastnode_id=0

http://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=44

http://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnotes/beowulf/5.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/beowulf/summary.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Beowulf.html#Top

http://faculty.uca.edu/~jona/second/beonotes.htm

http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/medheroes.htm

Answer 3

because grendel comes into that hall every night and slaughters anything in it!