"The word is aglæca/æglæca — no one's entirely sure how to pronounce it – and, as Headley explains, that same word is used to describe Beowulf and his three antagonists: Grendel, Grendel's mother, and the dragon.
'In the early English translations it was translated for Beowulf as 'hero' and for Grendel as 'monster,' and for Grendel's mother as 'wretch of a woman' or 'hag,' ' Headley says. "But it's the same word.'"
~ K. Coleman
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/22/630933578/beowulf-in-the-suburbs-the-mere-wife-is-an-epic-retelling
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