Beowulf was a geat or ostrogoth, as it were, who had a natural rivalry with the danes. Epic poem, 3,000 lines long, written in england between ad 700 and in old english anglosaxon. Beowulfs boasts and encounters reveal him to be the strongest, ablest warrior around. The story tells of the norse hero, beowulf, set in a once upon a time mythic age. In his youth, he personifies all of the best values of the heroic culture. Beowulf is the iconic work of literature in old english. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. It is one of the most important works of old english literature. A book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Beowulf must tread lightly when addressing hrothgar, but must impress the king in order to be accepted into his service to fight grendel what is an epic. Beowulf is one of the most significant influences upon tolkiens later fiction, with major details of both the hobbit and the lord of the rings being adapted from the poem. The story of heroic beowulf and his battles with the monster grendel and also with grendels mother not to mention the dragon is rather awesome. However, beowulf was in the mind to pay the king back for a deed he did long ago as well as to further his.
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