Beowulf
Beowulf is to be known as the oldest epic poem in english language. It was written in old english the language of the saxons. The poem was originally untitled but later in the 19th century people began to start calling it by the name of the hero. Both the hero and the poem are fictional. The poem may have been written as early as 700 a.d. They say the original author may have been is lost to history. They say that because of handwriting style the believe it was written by two people and like merged together. Its an old english poem about a hero from modern day sweden that travels to denmark and kills man eating monsters and later in life back at his home town in sweden comes against a fire breathing dragon but does not succeed and dies
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Grendel starts attacking hrothgar’s mead hall every night. Hrothgar was a great warrior but he is an old king now and can’t protect his people like he use to be able too. So he finds a great warrior that can do his work named Beowulf that is able to fight and protect the people. Beowulf goes to the herot hall from his land overseas to give a helping hand to king hrothgar. Beowulf ends up offering to even fight the demon grendel himself hands to hands. So the next time the demon grendel comes to the mead hall beowulf is waiting for him and fights him and tears his arm from his shoulder and grendel leaves and dies off in the woods. Now they celebrate for beowulf for his accomplishment and give him all kinds of rewards for killing grendel. Grendel has an overprotective mother who tries to go back and avenge her son and shows up to the mead hall when everyone after the party and they wake up and she scares off and runs to her cave under a lake and they follow her and beowulf kills her too …show more content…
There is King Hrothgar who is the king at the time that needs help and cant protect his people and this is when Beowulf comes in. Also there is Grendel which is the one who attacks the mead hall and get’s killed by beowulf. Then there is the dragon who is the one that last fights beowulf and wounds him and they both die but the dragon was