What does the name Heorot mean?
In Anglo-Saxon Baby Names the meaning of the name Heorot is: Deer. How is Heorot destroyed in Beowulf? Heorot, the magnificent hall of Hrothgar, eventually will be destroyed by fire and the Geats subjugated by the Swedes when Beowulf, himself, is killed in his own battle with a dragon. Why is the hall of Heorot…