Grendel (disambiguation)

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Grendel can refer to:

• Grendel, the antagonist in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
• Grendel (novel), a novel by John Champlin Gardner, Jr. that retells Beowulf from Grendel's point of view.
• Grendel (film), a made-for-television motion picture adaptation of the Beowulf poem and Grendel novel, produced by the Sci Fi Channel.
• Grendel (opera): an opera composed by Elliot Goldenthal and directed by Julie Taymor.
• Grendel (opera score): score to the above opera composed by Elliot Goldenthal
• "Grendel", a song by Marillion, B side to their first single, "Market Square Heroes" (1982). The recorded version of the song is 17:40 long, while the live versions regularly ran to over 20 minutes.
• "Grendel", a song on the album Diary by Sunny Day Real Estate
• "Grendel", a short story by Larry Niven written in 1968.
• Grendel, The Holy City in the Scrapped Princess anime
• Grendels, a predatory alien species in the science-fiction novel The Legacy of Heorot
• Grendel (comics), a fictional assassin appearing in comic books by Matt Wagner
• Grendel (radio personality), a former radio DJ on KSCU 103.3 FM who won Best DJ in Metro Silicon Valley's 2001 Best of Silicon Valley and Best Celebrity in Metro Silicon Valley's Best of Silicon Valley 2002
• Grendel: a species in the artificial life computer program Creatures
• Mozilla Grendel, a Java-based e-mail and Usenet client
• Grendel (band), a Netherlands-based dark electro/hard EBM band
• 6.5 Grendel, a rifle cartridge developed by Alexander Arms
• Grendel P30
• Grendel R31
• Grendel S16
• In the 1998 computer game Battlezone, Grendel is the NSDF designation given to the Soviet bomber class ship.

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