... sang by bards and scops. These bards and scops used a strong beat and alliteration to help them remember the songs easier. It is believed that the actual story of Beowulf took place two hundred years before it was permanently copied on to paper, and the author us unknown. The story was originally pagan, however, then it was written by a Christian monk, trying to ... servant who stole a callous, as a peace offering to his master. The battle with the Dragon takes place many years after Beowulf had defeated Grendel and Grendel's mother, approximately fifty years of peace and prosperity had...

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