The only long literary text in Old English is the epic poem Beowulf.The poem recounts the deeds of a Scandinavian prince,called Beowulf,and it is one of the fundamental works of poetry in English.Beowulf himself is a traditional hero,he is the most famous warrior in the land of the Geats.He crosses the sea to the land of the Danes in order to free their country of their mortal enemy,the man-eating monster Grendel.Even if the hero is a mortal man,he kills it.When a dragon begins to terrorise the land,Beowulf confronts and kills it.but he also meets his own death thus entering the legends of his people as a hero-warrior.
