Ray Winstone credited as playing...
Beowulf • Golden Man • Dragon
- Beowulf: I am Ripper... Tearer... Slasher... Gouger. I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength... and Lust... and Power! I AM BEOWULF!
- Beowulf: [to Frisian] In a way you can't kill me, my friend, 'cause I died many, many years ago when I was young.
- King Hrothgar: [referring to the Royal Dragon Horn, but looking at his Queen] I wonder how many men have died for love of her beauty.
- Beowulf: Can you blame them?
- King Hrothgar: If you destroy my Grendel for me, she'll be yours forever and ever and ever.
- Beowulf: [takes the horn in his hands] You do me great honor.
- Wealthow: [asuming they are talking about her] It is we who are honored.
- Beowulf: How many monsters must I slay? Grendel's mother, father, Grende's uncle? Must I hack down a whole family tree of demons?
- King Hrothgar: She is the last of them. Whith her gone, demonkind will slip back into the darkness from whence it came.
- Wiglaf: And where it belongs.
- Beowulf: And the mother's mate? Where is Grendel's father?
- King Hrothgar: Grendel's father can do no harm to man.
- Unferth: Beowulf... I was wrong to doubt you before, and I shall not again. Yours is the blood of courage. I bet your forgiveness.
- Beowulf: Granted.
- Unferth: Cain. Cain! Take my sword. It belonged to my father's father. It's called 'Hrunting'.
- Beowulf: The sword is no match for demon magic.
- Unferth: I'm sorry I ever doubted you.
- Beowulf: No, I'm sorry I mentioned you murdered your brothers. They were hasty words. Unferth, I may not return. Your ancestral sword may be lost with me.
- Unferth: As long as it is with you, it will never be lost.
- Beowulf: You want your name in The Song of Beowulf? You think it sould end with me killed by some Frisian raider with no name?
- Frisian Leader: I'm Finn of Frisia and my name shall be remembered forever!
- Beowulf: Only if you kill me. Otherwise you're nothing.
- Beowulf: Unferth, son of Ecglaf. I know who you are. They say you killed both your brothers when you witnessed them having knowledge of your mother.
- [Unferth pulls a knife, Beowulf holds his arm]
- Beowulf: I have another true thing to tell you, Unferth Kin-Slayer.
- [Unferth drops the weapon, Beowulf holds other arm]
- Beowulf: If your strength and heart was as strong and fierce as your words Grendel would not feel free to murder and gorge on your people without fear of retaliation. Tonight will be different! Tonight he will find Geats waiting for him, not frightened sheep
- [throws Unferth to the ground and points at him]
- Beowulf: like you.
- Wiglaf: Your legend is known from the high seas and the snow barriers to the Great Island Kingdom - you are the Monster Slayer.
- Beowulf: We men are the monsters now. The time of heroes is dead, Wiglaf - the Christ God has killed it, leaving humankind with nothing but weeping martyrs, fear, and shame.
- Beowulf: It's no Earthly storm, that much is for sure. But this demon's tempest will not hold us out if we really want in!
- Grendel's Mother: I see you brought me treasure.
- Beowulf: [to Grendel's Mother] Show yourself! What are you?
- Grendel's Mother: I know that underneath your glamor you're as much a monster as my son, Grendel.
- Beowulf: My glamor!
- Grendel's Mother: One needs glamor to become a king.
- [as Beowulf prepares to face the dragon]
- Ursula: [crying] Don't go, my Lord! Stay with me, please, I beg you!
- Beowulf: Forget about me. Find a good man, and bear him fine children, but bear him a son.
- Ursula: I don't want another man! I want you!
- Beowulf: I am not the man you believe me to be...
- Ursula: You are a hero! You are a great man! This I know to be true!
- Beowulf: [shouting] Then you are as foolish as the rest of them!
- [Ursula runs out, sobbing]