"[Beowulf,] the Anglo-Saxon epic is the most important work of Old English literature" (Brittany). ... Beowulf is the oldest English epic that was neither written in England nor written about England. The epic was originally passed from person to person through the oral tradition, and sang by bards and scops. ... The date that Beowulf was written in ranges from the eighteenth century to which the epic was originally composed, to the end of the tenth century, a period during which the manuscript that is posses today was copied down. ... This story was saved it is "a story of dreams and legen...

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Beowulf possesses many qualities that by the definition of the times, make him a hero. ... Beowulf also shows the qualities of loyalty, confidence, and wisdom which all make him a hero. ... Confidence was a quality a hero was supposed to posses. 10. ... Wiglaf is important to the poem because he marks the era of a new hero. ... All those qualities are ones of a hero. ...

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In the epic story Beowulf, the epitome of the character Beowulf faced three battles in which tested him in areas of power, weakness, and death. ... Throughout the story of Beowulf the reader can depict from the battles that Beowulf dealt with finding his true power during his battle with Grendel, the adversities of weakness with the battle with Grendel's mother, and then the ultimate battle which was his death which resulted in the birth of a new hero. Beowulf was considered a hero for many reasons. ... His many defeats and courageous acts proved him to be deemed a true hero of his times...

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