Description of heorot from the text battle with grendel

The description of Heorot from the text battle with Grendel is a mead hall defined in the Anglo Saxon epic Beowulf as the foremost of halls under heaven. The Geatish hero Beowulf protects the royal hall and its occupant from the demonic Grendel. The story essentially defines the building of Heorot. Hrothgar, chooses to construct a Valhalla type of sanctuary for his soldiers that he names Heorot or the hall of the hat which is also called deer hall. Heorot is a drinking hall where warriors gather for parties and to get drunk. It is for men to gather as a meeting place and a place to sleep. Grendel continuously attack the hall for twelve winter abolishing more and more men every night with no remorse and the men are afraid to sleep in the hall thinking than maybe Grendel will eat them. The main passage of the story where internal versus external evil.