Beowulf
Envy
Honor
Old English
Chivalry
Sacrifice
Epic poetry
Loyalty
Battles
Wisdom
Anglo-Saxons
Betrayal
Warfare
Medieval Literature
Tragedy
Courage
Dragons
Mythology
Monsters
Revenge
Long Now Manual for Civilization
Leadership
Death
Folklore
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 f…
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