Like other epic poems someone or something had to have a problem with something that they couldn’t handle themselves. This is where Beowulf comes in. the Danes where in the hall where they drank and had a good time. After that they were all a little tipsy and they went to sleep. After that this monster Grendel comes into their hall and kills thirty men with ease. The Danes were terrified so the sailors that sailed to Sweden told what had happen back in Denmark. Beowulf had heard the story and agreed to fight this Grendel. Beowulf took fourteen of his men back to Denmark to fight.

So Beowulf and his men make it back to the Danes to help them out with Grendel. Beowulf and his men wait for Grendel to come back by pretending to be asleep. Grendel comes back but he kills one of his men. Beowulf gets up and get on Grendel. They fight but Beowulf almost looses his life when Grendel gets on top of him but his chained mail stops Grendel’s claws from piercing his skin. With Beowulf mighty strength he gets up and rips Grendel’s arm off. This made Grendel run back to his lair, where later on he dies. Beowulf had defeated Grend

After kill both monsters, Beowulf much that he became kind of the Danes fifty-years. But the threat was still not over. The fire dragon had appeared, threatening the people of Beowulf. But once again Beowulf had no fear of fighting this dragon. His aging would make a difference but he still had no fear. He gathered up his men to go fight this dragon threatening his people. They get to his den and the dragon come out and breaths out his fire breath trapping Beowulf behind his shield. All of his men got scared and ran off leaving Beowulf behind, to fight the fire dragon alone but ones stays back, Wiglaf was his name. He saw was in trouble and that he was the only one that could help him help him to get out alive and defeat the fire dragon. Together they kill the dragon but Beowulf or hurt really bad. Beowulf asks Wiglaf to bring him the treasure that the dragon was guarding. Wiglaf does what he was asked to do and find his king bloody, gasping for air, Wiglaf sprinkles water over his forehead, until the words broke though and were heard. “For this, this gold, these jewels, I thank our father in Heaven, ruler of the earth—for all this, which His grace has given me.” Before he dies he tells Wiglaf that he w

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