Envisioning Heorot

Continuing the work of The Grinnell Beowulf, we are creating a Virtual Reality experience that will allow people to visit Heorot, the Danish meadhall featured in Beowulf. The team will base its model on archaeological excavations of Viking meadhalls and villages in Northern Europe as well as accounts from historical and poetic records from the early Middle Ages. The project will help modern readers of Anglo-Saxon poetry, especially Beowulf, to better understanding the civic spaces that helped shape Anglo-Saxon social structures.