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How Is Beowulf Honorable

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Beowulf The Great Today people go out of their way to help someone and do good. Average people without proper equipment will stop to help victims of a car crash, they are perceived as heroic. Similar to the Anglo Saxons who allowed their warriors to go into battle without weapons if they wished. This challenge wasn't accepted by many men, but those who did were seen as very honorable. Beowulf was one of the brave men who took this challenge, in Beowulf he leaves his homeland to help Hogarth get rid of a terrible monster plaguing their lands. This shows his strength, his courage, and his lasting capabilities which start his life as a hero.
Beowulf is extremely courageous more than your average warrior at this time. Once in Herot he offers to fight the monster Grendel with only the help of his men. As quoted in the following sentences “that i, alone and with the help of my men, may purge all evil from this hall.” (165-166) As a warrior he is able to trust in his capabilities and his mens. Beowulf is afraid of how his lord Higlac will perceive him if he goes to fight Grendel with weapons. He states in the following lines “i have heard, too, that the monster's scorn of men is so great that he needs no weapons and fears none. …show more content…

His battle with Grendel is the start of it all as stated in this qoute “..slowly toward Herot again, retelling Beowulf’s bravery as they jogged along.”( 379-380) Everyone will start retelling the story of Beowulf and his battle with Grendel, poets will start writing it down making him a warrior known by all, and a legend. This is similar to The 13th warrior in the sense that when Beowulf comes back from the killing the mother of the Wendol’s his health starts to deteriorate. He ask Ahmad Ibn Fadlan the poet to write down his story so that he may be remembered. Both these scenes are memorable mostly because of the bloodshed that

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