beowulf

Hello. My name is Osawa Akie. From now on, I would like to post about Beowulf.

I didn’t know this story until I had learned in this class. When I heard “Beowulf” at first, I thought it was wolf’s story, but it was wrong.

Beowulf is the one of the oldest story in Germanic language. Beowulf is the hero in Denmark. In the first part, he fought against Grendel who was attacking Heorot, and Grendel’s mother. In the second part, he became the king and he exterminated Dragon which is breathing fire. However, after he fought against dragon, he died.

This story has the origin of fantasy story. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, who wrote The Hobbit, or There and Back Again and The Lord of the Rings, investigated Beowulf, and he was effected Beowulf when he wrote those stories.

Beowulf is very exciting story! I wanna read this story. Thank you.