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Beowulf - An Elite Warrior

Beowulf - An Elite Warrior

Beowulf is an epic poem that is about a town in Demark that has a problem with a monster named Grendal who kills men at night and vanishes in the dark. Beowulf is a man who comes from Sweden to kill the monster Grendal. Grendal has three extraordinary adventures, when he gets to the town that Grendal is staying.

The first adventure is with Grendal the monster. Beowulf gathers all his men and stays in the med hall and awaits the monster. When Grendal finds out there are men in the med hall he knows he is in for a good meal so, Grendal hurries to the med hall to eat. When entering the med hall Grendal he demolishes an eats a couple of Beowulf’s men. When this is happening it wakes every one of the warriors and more become victims of the monster Grendal. The monster Grendal makes it to Beowulf and they began to fight, Beowulf tries to use his sword but no ordinary weapon can hurt him. So Beowulf uses his hands and rips one of Grendal's arms off, and he runs off out the door in to the fog mortally wounded.

The second adventure is with Grendals mom at the lake of fire. Beowulf goes to the lake of fire to find Grendals mother. She lives under the lake of fire and so Beowulf must go down underneath the water to find her. Beowulf goes and finds her, and they begin to fight he uses his sword but she breaks it, so he finds a sword that is on the wall and uses it to kill her. Beowulf then finds Grendal and kills him, while this is all happening all his men think he is dead until one day he come back with Grendals head wearing it on his shoulders.

The third adventure is about Beowulf going after the treasure that a dragon is protecting. Beowulf gets he’s men together to go and fight the dragon but non of them want to die so they wont go, but there is one man who was brave and went, he was Wiglif. They got to the island and Beowulf went in and got wounded by the dragon, so Wiglif went in a killed the dragon. Beowulf is impartially dead and tells...

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