BEOWULF

Composed toward the end of the first millennium Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and later from Grendel s mother He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon The poem is about encountering the monstrous defeating it and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath