Beowulf/Fridge

Beowulf (the 2007 film)

 * Fridge Brilliance: When Beowulf says he "killed" nine sea monsters (and Grendel's mother), he's using the old euphemistic meaning.
 * Care to explain further? I want to know what it means.
 * The euphemism being for "having had sex with". In the movie, which is supposedly the real-life events of which the poem is based on, the sea monsters he claims he killed are actually mermaids he had sex with, and instead of killing Grendel's mother
 * Not at all. He just "killed" the mermaid, and the other sea monsters were truly killed, at least that's why I understood for it. He had sex with the mermaid, however, as he remarks he "killed" her with his "sword". And Grendel's momma too.