Foundation Of Literature

Name:Laelatul Badriyah
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Subject:Foundation Of Literature

Beowulf
Summary:

After I read some story about Beowulf, So I know that Beowulf is a great warrior and hero. He sails to Denmark to save his relative king Hrothgar from a terrible monster called Grendel. There's a fight and Beowulf tears off Grendel's arm, so Grendel goes home and bleeds to death. The next night Grendel's mother come and attacks king Hroghtgar's hall, so Beowulf fights and kills her too with a magic sword. Every one is very happy and Beowulf gets a lot of rewards. Beowulf goes on to have more adventures. He helps out with a viking raid on frisia leg by king hygelac (which is also mencioned by Frankish sources so we know it happened in 516 AD). Eventually he becomes kings of the geats and he rules the geats untill he is an old man, for fifty years. But then he hears about new monster that is scarring everybody: this time it is a dragon. Eventhough he is very old beowulf is still a hero so he goes out and kills the dragon. But this time the dragon succeeds in killing Beowulf too.