Beowulf is an epic hero. He has great acts of heroic things. He never flees from a challenge.

Beowulf comes for a far land to help hrothgar. There 's a terrible darkness over his land. His people are getting terrorized by grendel. So beowulf comes to show his act of bravery to save hrothgar’s land. Grendel is the worst of two natures, half human, half beast, a lonely misfit, vicious and vengeful, cruel and cannibalistic. But he didn’t phase beowulf’s acts of bravery. So Beowulf goes to fight grendel and cuts his arm off. So then grendel 's mother comes back to avenge his death. She terrorise the town but not for long. Beowulf strong courage wouldn’t let her continue with her killing spree. So he goes in with his sword but it was cursed.