Beowulf

Beowulf is a story that takes place in medieval Europe, the main part of the story is about a knight, Beowulf, that has to fight evil creatures such as a dragon. No one is exactly sure who wrote Beowulf, Paleographers believe from characteristics of the scribal hands that wrote the soul surviving text, that the manuscript was copied down in the late tenth century or early eleventh. This early copy of Beowulf is still around today. This single manuscript can be found in the British Library in London. Scholars believe that the story itself was written between 650-800. In the medieval, warriors were looked up to greatly. To die as a warrior was one of man's greatest achievements. Children adored them and women wanted to get with them, a lot like celebrities today. The troops of warriors had integrity and loyalty to one another. Death plays a huge part in Beowulf, the story starts and ends with the funeral of a hero. God played more of a noticeable part. Where as now days we can pretty much take care of ourselves, with an invisible helping hand of god. Beowulf has many different aspects to it, whether it is burials and celebrations, monsters and religion or good vs. evil. The great epic known as Beowulf has survived many years, and will surely last forever. Due to the fact, things with in Beowulf are still happening today. I truly wish that the writer of Beowulf was know so that he or she could be held up with the other great minds of the