Beowulf
Beowulf
Beowulf is the hero of the Old English epic poem of the same name, composed by an unknown poet sometime between the 8th and early 11th centuries and preserved in a single manuscript. In the poem, Beowulf, a young warrior of the Geats of southern Sweden, sails to Denmark to help King Hrothgar, whose great hall Heorot is menaced by the monster Grendel. He overcomes Grendel and then Grendel's mother, and returns home with honor. Fifty years later, as a wise king of the Geats, he faces a dragon that threatens his people; with the help of the loyal young warrior Wiglaf he defeats it but is mortally wounded. Written from a Christian perspective about a pagan past, the poem honors courage, loyalty, generosity and duty. The longest surviving epic in Old English, it is a cornerstone of English literature.
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Legends of Britain and Ireland
Cú Chulainn, the young champion of Ulster, is the great hero of early Irish epic. King Arthur and the wise enchanter Merlin stand at the heart of the Arthurian legends of Camelot and the Round Table. The Old English poem Beowulf tells of a hero who battles the monster Grendel, and English ballads celebrate Robin Hood, the outlaw of Sherwood Forest who aided the poor.
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