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Beowulf: The Heroic Characteristics Of An Epic Hero

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An epic hero is a person that has courage who has outstanding,dangerous,and beautiful qualities and abilities, and that hero is usually admired for having these aspects of their character and also admired for brave and noble acts. An Anglo-Saxon hero is a hero who has great intentional qualities, and is able to provide people protection, and is willing to risk their lives to protect his people. An epic hero will always be looked up to, not only for being a hero but also because of what they do, and how theirs not many good heros out their.

There are many heroic characteristics that Beowulf represents. First of these characteristics is that Beowulf performs brave deeds by going to the Land of the Danes to kill Grendel. Beowulf did it not

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